Dorothy Parker Quotes About Fun

Quotes about: Fun

• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

• (Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Dog, Fun

• On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Artist, Typewriters

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

• If I didn't care for fun and such,
  I'd probably amount to much.
  But I shall stay the way I am,
  Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Failure, Giving

  "Enough Rope". Book by Dorothy Parker, 1926.

• If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Humorous, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

• If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Pain, Gun

• Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Moon, Love Is

  Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "General Review of the Sex Situation"

• It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Ice, Gathering

• People are more fun than anyone.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, People

• People are more than fun than anybody.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, People

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