Gregson Lane Folk Club - Live Folk Music club. Includes calendar and meeting place and times.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Hoghton Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Hoghton
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hoghton It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Hoghton
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Hoghton He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Hoghton
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Hoghton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Hoghton
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Hoghton If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Hoghton
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Hoghton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hoghton
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Hoghton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Hoghton
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hoghton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 Unha To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Hoghton
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Hoghton Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Hoghton
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Hoghton It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Hoghton
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Hoghton "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Hoghton
