Community Foundation for Northern Ireland - Formerly the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust. Includes news, information about the organisation's activities and contact details.
Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action - NICVA supports the Province's voluntary sector. The site provides information on their services, which include a library and advice on fundraising, and details of their location and recent publications.
Society of St Vincent de Paul Northern Ireland - Voluntary social service organisation committed to helping those in need, regardless of creed or lifestyle. History of the Conference, directory of area councils and conferences, information on volunteering or making donations.
Capacity Builder - Support service to those working in the community and voluntary sector, providing information on management in a community context.
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Volunteering This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Volunteering
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Volunteering He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Volunteering
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Volunteering In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Volunteering
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Volunteering Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Volunteering Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Volunteering
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Volunteering Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Volunteering
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins 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 Volunteering Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Volunteering
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Volunteering Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Volunteering
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Volunteering A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Volunteering
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Volunteering "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Volunteering
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Volunteering "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Volunteering
