Suffolk Music Diary - Information about classical music events in West Suffolk. Includes an interactive diary of concerts and recitals.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Music Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Music
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Music "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Music
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Music It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Music
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Music That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Music
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Music If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous 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 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Music
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Music Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Music
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Music A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Music
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Music "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Music
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "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) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Music A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Music
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Music If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Music
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Music 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Music
