Paul Francis - Piano Music - Paul plays tasteful live piano music at your dinner parties, wedding breakfasts or any other event. Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth area.
Hampshire County Youth Orchestra - Information about the orchestra including forthcoming concert dates, reviews and tour details. A full symphony orchestra of 110 players who are drawn from schools all over the county.
Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia - One of four recorder orchestras that rehearse and perform regularly in the UK. Consist of some of the finest recorder players in the county, playing instruments ranging in size from the 9-inch sopranino to the 6-foot Contrabass.
True Colour - One of the South's best cover bands.
The Party DJ - Bookings taken for most functions including weddings, events and children's parties. Includes description of services and contact details.
Swing Unlimited Big Band - Available for private and corporate events. Includes brief description and contact details.
Funk Reunited - Jazz funk and soul music at various gigs around the county. Profile, history, message board and upcoming events.
Out of Order - Hard dance promotions and events organisers, based in Shipton Bellinger.
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Music Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Music "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Music
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Music Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Music
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Music Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Music
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Music Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Music
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Music Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Music
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Music Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Music
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Music There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Music
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Music "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Music We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Music
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Music "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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