Newton Music Festival - Annual outdoor pop and rock festival. Includes information for performers and audience, and past programmes.
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Music It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Music
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Music Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Music
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Music Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Music
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Music "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music
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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Music Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Music
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry 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. Music My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Music How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Music
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Music
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Music If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Music 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Music "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Music
