Aldershot and Farnham Camera Club - Introduction and history, programme of meetings and competitions, and individual galleries of members, work.
Farnham Maltings - Arts and community centre. Profile, activities and events.
Live Performance Workshop - Offers the opportunity to learn, rehearse and perform a contemporary/classic rock song in a band. Profile, news and repertoire. Meets in Liphook and Basingstoke.
Language and Music for Life: Summer Jazz - Annual two-week workshop at Frensham Heights, Farnham teaches jazz saxophone as well as basic and advanced improvisation. Photos, faculty profiles.
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Arts and Entertainment I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Arts and Entertainment
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Arts and Entertainment The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Arts and Entertainment
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Arts and Entertainment 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Arts and Entertainment "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Arts and Entertainment "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Arts and Entertainment
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 Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Arts and Entertainment Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Arts and Entertainment
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Arts and Entertainment I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Arts and Entertainment "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Arts and Entertainment
