Amadeus - The Chamber Choir - Chamber choir available for hire with a wide-ranging repertoire, from church music and madrigals to contemporary works and Broadway songs.
Formby Choral Society - Amateur choir. Includes a list of forthcoming concerts, and information about ticket sales.
Formby Festival - Festival covering a wide variety of musical styles. Includes information about the performers.
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-- Stephen Leacock "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Music There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Music
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 When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) 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) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Music
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Music We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Music
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Music It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Music
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Music "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Music
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Music This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Music
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Music Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Music
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Music The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Music
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Music When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Music
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Music If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Music
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Music
