Festival Facts - A guide in both Swedish and English to about 100 music festivals (most Swedish).
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Festivals "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Festivals
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Festivals "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Festivals
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Festivals "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Festivals
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Festivals "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Festivals
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "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) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Festivals To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Festivals
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Festivals A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Festivals
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Festivals "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Festivals
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Festivals Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Festivals
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Festivals I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Festivals
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Festivals 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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Festivals
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Festivals
