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Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart
US aviator (1897 - 1937)


Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973


If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)


He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.

Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)


It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"


If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Andrew A. Rooney


It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?

Alan Perlis


Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry
US columnist & humorist (1947 - )


It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)


If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Greek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC)


If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!

Dr. Seuss
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)


Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
US cartoonist (1958 - )


In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak


The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles Schwab


The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)


There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little


Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather
(1908 - 1976)


There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld
US comedian & television actor (1954 - )


The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse
Swiss (German-born) author (1877 - 1962)


The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)




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