Quotations About / On: FUNNY

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

So you finally got wise to yourself, did you? Funny thing about you women. Most of you don't get wise soon enough. You wait until you're so old nobody want you.... You're not so hard to look at. Give yourself a tumble, you'll make the grade.

She by my side
Stared at the Moon; and then I knew he knew.
And then he smiled at her; to him 'twas funny—
Her calm steel eyes, her earth-old throat of honey!

Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we're as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go 'round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?

For me, it's enough! They've been here long enough—maybe too long. It's a funny thing, though. All these years Fred was too busy to have much time for the kids, now he's the one who's depressed because they're leaving. He's really having trouble letting go. He wants to gather them around and keep them right here in this house.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
I watched that wretched man,
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while.... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.