Travelling Minstrels - Classical ensemble play for special occasions and offer musical workshop holidays. Includes programme and costs.
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Arts and Entertainment "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arts and Entertainment
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Arts and Entertainment Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Arts and Entertainment "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Arts and Entertainment
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Arts and Entertainment
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Arts and Entertainment There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Arts and Entertainment "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Arts and Entertainment
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Arts and Entertainment All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Arts and Entertainment
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Arts and Entertainment Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Arts and Entertainment
