Millhouse Green Male Voice Choir - Approximately 50 male voices, willing to perform at local events. Includes information about the group and their performances.
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Arts and Entertainment The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Arts and Entertainment
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Arts and Entertainment Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "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) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Arts and Entertainment
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Arts and Entertainment
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Arts and Entertainment When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Arts and Entertainment
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Arts and Entertainment
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment "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 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Arts and Entertainment
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Arts and Entertainment
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. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Arts and Entertainment Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
