Society of Recorder Players - Group promoting this form of music. Details of local branches, forthcoming events, and members.
Berkshire Recorder Consort - Information and events from group specialising in early music on recorders and other early instruments.
Dolmetsch Online - Extensive information from manufacturers including details of their annual summer festival, instrument prices, and online lessons.
Recorder Music Mail - Information about the recorder as well as catalogue listings of music available through the site, and links.
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Recorder "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Recorder
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recorder Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Recorder
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry 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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Recorder Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Recorder
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Recorder In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Recorder
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Recorder "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Recorder
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recorder Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Recorder
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Recorder The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recorder
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Recorder And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Recorder
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 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Recorder Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Recorder
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recorder Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Recorder
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Recorder If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recorder
