If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Fundraising "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Fundraising "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
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? Work I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Fundraising
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Fundraising Marriage is a rest period between romances. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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-- Steven Wright "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Fundraising
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Fundraising A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 Fundraising
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Fundraising "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Fundraising
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Fundraising Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Fundraising Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Isaac Asimov I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Fundraising
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Fundraising "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Fundraising
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Fundraising How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Fundraising
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Fundraising It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Fundraising
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Fundraising I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Fundraising
