Hathersage Brass Band - Information about the band and its members with diary, samples of its music and a brief description of its instruments.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Hathersage "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Hathersage
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Hathersage The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Hathersage
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Hathersage "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hathersage
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hathersage "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hathersage
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Hathersage The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Hathersage
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hathersage "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Hathersage
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hathersage Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous 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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hathersage
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Hathersage Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Hathersage
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Hathersage If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hathersage
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Hathersage Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hathersage
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Hathersage There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Hathersage
