I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
—Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
—Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American Journalist
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
Work is much more fun than fun.
—Noel Coward (1899–1973) English Dramatist, Actor, Composer
Oh, the good times when we were so unhappy.
—Alexandre Dumas pere (1802–1870) French Novelist, Playwright
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
—Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
—A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) English Humorist, Novelist, Playwright, Politician
Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.
—Donald Trump (b.1946) American Businessperson, Head of State
I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, you’ve got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
—Mel Brooks (b.1926) American Actor, Screenwriter, Composer, Comedian
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
—William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) American Unitarian Theologian, Poet
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
—John Burroughs (1837–1921) American Naturalist, Writer
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
—Samuel Butler
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
—Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) American Actor, TV Personality
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
—William Glasser (1925–2013) American Psychiatrist, Author, Speaker
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
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