Fun Uncle Sayings

#1. They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

Sarah Silverman

#2. The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

John Calvin

#3. She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

J.M. Ledgard

#4. We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.

Azar Nafisi

#5. These days, the phone only carries bad news. It's all "your student loan is past due" and "your uncle Chris is in the hospital." If it's anything fun or exciting, like an invitation to a party or a secret project in the works, it will come through the internet.

Robin Sloan

#6. My first go-round was in a group called Heltah Skeltah, I did that, it was cool;

Sean Price

#7. Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

Liang Qichao

#8. I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?

R.L. LaFevers

#9. A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

Mark Twain

#10. My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. Our kids need us to be the dad, not a fun single uncle. When you can replace your 007 poster with a framed portrait of Grandma, your kids will experience an underlying sense of being at home when they are with you - whether for a weekend, a summer, or full-time.

Tez Brooks

#12. My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel

Brenda Blethyn

#13. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it; it's downright not fun at times. Sometimes I am mad at the military, at Uncle Sam, even at regular citizens who don't have a clue of the demands placed on our family.

Jen McDonald