West Midlands Folk Federation - Represents folk song, dance, morris, clog and mumming clubs, as well as major folk festivals in the region.
Rage - West Midlands arts organisation who assist other organisations to arrange theatre, film and multimedia events. Plus information on arts education and touring theatre.
Arts Council England, West Midlands - Provides advice, information and help to artists and arts organisations in the region. Includes current projects.
West Midlands Public Libraries - Gateway site for public libraries in the West Midlands. Links to libraries and search the online library catalogues.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Arts and Entertainment Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Arts and Entertainment The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Arts and Entertainment "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) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Arts and Entertainment I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Arts and Entertainment
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "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) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Arts and Entertainment
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Arts and Entertainment May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Arts and Entertainment
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) 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 Arts and Entertainment
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Arts and Entertainment If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
