Staines Light Operatic Society - The society performs primarily from the Magna Carta Theatre, Staines. Details of current performances, forthcoming and past productions are detailed.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Staines "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Staines
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Staines In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Staines
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Staines A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Staines
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Staines They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Staines
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Staines Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Staines
May you never leave your marriage alive. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Staines The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Staines
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Staines "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Staines
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Staines "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Staines
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Staines "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Staines
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Staines The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Staines
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Staines Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Staines
