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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FUN
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
George Ade (1866-1944, American humorist, playwright)
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
Kehlog Albran (1933-, Author born in Brest-Litovsk)
A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
She concedes that she's the one she pleases.
Kim Carnes (1945-, American singer)
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
Dan Dierdorf (1949-, American football player)
Create an environment that is fun and you create an environement that people want to be a part of.
Rich DiGirolamo (American businessman, trainer, speaker)
If you're not having fun, it's your own fault.
Rich DiGirolamo (American businessman, trainer, speaker)
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
Alexandre (the Younger) Dumas (1824-1895, French writer)
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman (American commentator, writer)
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
A. P. Herbert (1890-1971, British author, politician)
Fundraising requires both optimism and realism. Without the first, few if any gift solicitation efforts would be made. Without the second, few if any would succeed.
Howard L. Jones
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan (1894-1986, British Prime Minister)
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Fundraising is a matter of presence and timing, and if you've got the presence you can guess the timing.
Mew Parris Nudd
We should never forget that no Fundraising effort ever succeeds unless one person asks another person for money.
Andrew D. Parker Jr.
Fundraising is not an event; it is a process.
Edgar D. Powell
Fundraising opportunities will continue to exist throughout the next century. Those opportunities will equal or exceed all current experience or presently held future expectations.
Edgar D. Powell
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
Ida P. Rolf (1896-1979, American biochemist, physical therapist)
Fundraising is not a right -- it is a privilege and we must always honor it as such.
Henry A. Rosso
On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it -- because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
Col. Harland Sanders (1890-1980, American businessman, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
There are no bad fund raisers and there are no bad Fundraising campaigns. There are only bad visions and dreams.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel De Unamuno (1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer)
Some people never head a procession until they're dead.
Author Unknown
The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead.
Author Unknown
When we recognize that a better word for Fundraising is "friend raising," we open limitless doors to creativity in support of our causes.
Sue Vineyard
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
Vivienne Westwood (1941-, British fashion designer)
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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