Bill Hilton - Pianist working in Northern England. Available for weddings, parties, celebrations, pubs, restaurants. Also teaches. Includes fee information.
North Yorkshire Chorus - Choral group formed in 1968, performing around the county. Offers a list of events, background to the group and a profile of the conductor.
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Music When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Music
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Music I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Music
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Music A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Music
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Music For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Music
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Music Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Music
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Music "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Music
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Music Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Music
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Music Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Music
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Music "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Music
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Music I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Music Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Music
