Lichfield Operatic Society - Includes history, information about past productions, next production, members, and tickets sales.
Living Light Glass Studio - Various Stained Glass Gifts to suit all tastes and pockets. Includes a Hints and Tips message board.
Ryknild Rabble - Local Morris Dance side. Includes photos, reports, and upcoming events.
Lichfield Youth Theatre - Open to all children in school years 6 to 13. Includes current show, other events, show archive, and photo album.
Lichfield Arts - Contains events diary, booking information, a map of the location, and contact details.
Lichfield and District Writers - Club for writers living near the city. Includes meeting places, competition results, and joining details.
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Arts and Entertainment If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Arts and Entertainment
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Arts and Entertainment
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Arts and Entertainment
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Arts and Entertainment If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
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, "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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Arts and Entertainment
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Arts and Entertainment
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment
