Hell Blues - Annual festival in September. Features information about the festival, the blues club, and the concert hall.
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Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Festivals Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Festivals
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Festivals "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Festivals
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Festivals Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Festivals
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Festivals Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Festivals
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Festivals Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Festivals
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Festivals I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Festivals
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Festivals I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Festivals
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Festivals The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Festivals
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "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) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Festivals Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Festivals
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Festivals Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Festivals
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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 Festivals All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Festivals
