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And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what…
— Khalil Gibran
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In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so…
— Jonas Salk
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Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.
— Carl Jung
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
— Eric Hoffer
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp…
— Sigmund Freud
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In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute…
— Diane Ackerman
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white…
— James Hillman
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(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child…
— Bill Gates
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All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
— Konrad Lorenz
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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not…
— Christian Morgenstern
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'
— Philip Kapleau
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we…
— Michael Pollan
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If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
— George Carlin
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...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural...…
— George W. Bush
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When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'
— Jay Leno
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next…
— Jay Leno
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As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.
— Jay Leno
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I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey…
— Mitch Hedberg
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