Riviera Breeze - Band available for weddings, masonic functions and other events. Includes real audio clips, comments from clients and background information on the group.
Horton Park Childrens Farm - Located close to Epsom and Chessington. Includes opening times, pictures, news and information on their playbarn and other activities.
The Cuddington Players - Amateur dramatics in Ewell. Details on current and previous productions including reviews and cast photos.
Epsom Light Opera Company - Amateur theatre company producing two musicals a year and concentrating on the quality of music. Information about the group, their history, past and current shows and how to join.
Epsom Youth Theatre - An amateur dramatics group devoted to teaching stage-craft to youngsters between the ages of 11 and 21. Includes news, pictures and ticket information.
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Arts and Entertainment
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Arts and Entertainment The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Arts and Entertainment "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Arts and Entertainment Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Arts and Entertainment The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Arts and Entertainment Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Arts and Entertainment
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Arts and Entertainment Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Arts and Entertainment
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Arts and Entertainment Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Arts and Entertainment
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arts and Entertainment "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment
