Bexhill Light Operatic and Dramatic Society - A charitable organisation based in Bexhill performing musical and light operatic productions twice a year for entertainment and education.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Arts and Entertainment It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Arts and Entertainment
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Arts and Entertainment
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Arts and Entertainment If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Arts and Entertainment Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Arts and Entertainment
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Arts and Entertainment I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Arts and Entertainment There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Arts and Entertainment
