Chester House Productions - A small production company offering historical drama, entertainment and speakers. Information on past and future productions.
Andover Vintage Bus Running Day - Details the free event which takes place in September within the town. Shows the route of the rally, provides photos and news of entrants.
Monkey Typewriter Promotions - Non-profit music promotion group. Profiles the people involved, photos, press comments and contacts.
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Arts and Entertainment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Arts and Entertainment
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Arts and Entertainment I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Arts and Entertainment
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Arts and Entertainment
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Arts and Entertainment Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Arts and Entertainment To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Arts and Entertainment Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Arts and Entertainment He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Arts and Entertainment
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Arts and Entertainment A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 Arts and Entertainment
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment
