quotes about having fun

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell



He is every other inch a gentleman. ~Rebecca West



The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper



Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~Samuel Pepys



Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves



Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin



The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. ~Ayn Rand



Context: the part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning; the circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.



We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939



Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts



We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler



We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick



A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth



He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. ~Author Unknown



One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. ~Author Unknown



Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft



You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown



May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends. ~Author Unknown