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Map for Moira - Site contains the poetry and paintings of David Lindsay-Coggins which grew out of his need to understand and express his feelings, on watching his wife fall victim to Alzheimer's disease at the age of fifty.
Mersey Morris Men - Dancing Cotswold Morris. Group history and events.
Osun Arts Foundation - A non-profit making organisation promoting African traditional arts and culture.
Pool of Life - Arts and entertainment listings magazine for Liverpool and Merseyside.
Merseyside Guild of Weavers - Group of weavers, spinners, dyers and others involved in fibre-related crafts. Information about activities, examples of members' work, and links to shopping and related sites.
Merseyscene - Guide to local entertainment. Covers pubs, clubs, cinema, the arts, eating out and accommodation.
Merseyside ACME - Arts, Culture and Media Enterprise. Supporting creative business developments, and regeneration though the arts. Information about activities, achievements, partners and research.
Team - Arts marketing organisation, with publicity printing service. Information about their services, arts events, and community initiatives.
Merseyside Dance Initiative - Organization promoting opportunities for people to see and participate in dance. Site includes news, information about classes and performances, and resources for dancers.
Millennium Arts Magazine - Information about visual, performing and literary arts events and organisations.
The Inklings - Site for one of Merseyside's writers circles.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Arts and Entertainment "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Arts and Entertainment The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Arts and Entertainment Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Arts and Entertainment We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman 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 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Arts and Entertainment Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Arts and Entertainment "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Arts and Entertainment "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Arts and Entertainment "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Arts and Entertainment My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Arts and Entertainment Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Arts and Entertainment I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Arts and Entertainment I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl "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) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Arts and Entertainment The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Arts and Entertainment First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Arts and Entertainment
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