Maghull Amateur Operatic Society - Performs musicals. Information about past and future performances, and photos from rehearsals.
Maghull Recorded Music Society - Club dedicated to listening to music. List of upcoming events and contact information. Affiliated to the Federation of Recorded Music Societies.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Music We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Music
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Music There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Music Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 Music
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Music An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Music
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Music "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Music
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Music
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" "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Music Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Music If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Music
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Music It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Music
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh 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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Music "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music
