Southport Bach Choir - Includes details of the current season's concerts and the history of the society.
Southport Jazz Festival - Four day music festival in June. Includes information about restaurants and accommodation.
Bothy Folk Club - Organises weekly gigs. Site includes a diary of local folk events, member profiles, news and photos.
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Music "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Music
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Music To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Music
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Music "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Music
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Music Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Music Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Music
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Music "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Music
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Music "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Music
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Music "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Music
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Music That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Music
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Music The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Music
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Music "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Music
