Age Takes Centre Stage Festival - Annual celebration of older age that takes place every October. Details of programme, photo gallery, awards and suggestions.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Arts and Entertainment [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Arts and Entertainment It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 Arts and Entertainment
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Arts and Entertainment "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts and Entertainment
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Arts and Entertainment "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Arts and Entertainment "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Arts and Entertainment Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Arts and Entertainment
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Arts and Entertainment In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Arts and Entertainment Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Arts and Entertainment
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Arts and Entertainment Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
