Birkenhead Operatic Society Trust - Amateur musical company. Information about past and upcoming productions, how to join, a gallery, and a brief history.
Hamilton Jazz Festival - Annual September event. Information about performers and box-office.
The Liverpool Mozart Orchestra - Chamber orchestra. Includes concert listings and news, as well as background on the orchestra and music director.
Wirral Recorder Orchestra - Information about concerts, rehearsals, and links to other recorder groups.
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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Music Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Music
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Music UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Music
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Music
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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Music He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Music
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Music There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Music
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Music Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Music
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Music "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Music
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Music "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Music
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Music If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Music
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Music
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Music I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 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) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Music
