fun quotes

That was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

-Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg Allen
  Of sex.  Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman).

'I don't know they're true,' he said.'I believe them because it's fun to believe them.'

- Richard Bach
  Illusions.

   But I'm dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? I am ill and old and terrified and tight.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Sun and FunSong of a Night-club Proprietress'.

AsTammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious: The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew.

- Robert Burns
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

Don Francesco was a fisher of men, and of women. He fished ad maiorem Dei gloriam, and for the fun of the thing. It was his way of taking exercise.

- (George) Norman Douglas
  South Wind, ch.2.

No se le hab|a ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se hab|a inventado para burlarse de la gente. It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

- Gabriel Garc|  a Ma r quez
  Cien an‹  os de soledad (translated as One HundredYears of Solitude,1970).

My final word, before I'm done, Is 'Cancer can be rather fun'. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.

-J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) Haldane
  'Cancer's a Funny Thing'.

People must not do things for fun.We are not here for fun. There isno reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  Uncommon Law,'Is it a Free Country?'.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

- Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope Hope
Quoted in the Reader's Digest, Oct1958.

   Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
  HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get children. In the meantime, in between time, Ain't we got fun.

- Gus Kahn
  'Ain't  We Got Fun' (with Raymond B Egan).

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An'now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o'the others The less will you settle for one;

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Ladies'.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

- Anita Loos
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.4

Iadmit it ismore funto puntthanto be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

- Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
  Gaudy Night, ch.14.

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

- George Bernard Shaw
  JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark
  TheValleys of theAssassins and other PersianTravels.