The Fingal Development Board - Explains the workings of the Development Board, lists the members and provides a summary of the strategic plan for Fingal.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Fingal Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Fingal
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Fingal You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Fingal
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Fingal Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Fingal
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Fingal Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Fingal
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Fingal War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Fingal
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Fingal Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Fingal
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Fingal The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Fingal
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Fingal "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Fingal
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Fingal I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Fingal
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Fingal In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Fingal
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Fingal Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Fingal
