Marple Choral Society - Formerly the Overdale Singers, established over 30 years ago. This choir practices at Marple Methodist Church.
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. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Arts and Entertainment Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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. Arts and Entertainment Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Arts and Entertainment Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Arts and Entertainment
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Arts and Entertainment The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Arts and Entertainment "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Arts and Entertainment
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Arts and Entertainment We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Arts and Entertainment He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
