Knowle Operatic Society - Amateur group originally performing in Knowle Village Hall: includes online ticket reservations, calendar, company's history.
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The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Arts and Entertainment
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Arts and Entertainment "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Arts and Entertainment Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Arts and Entertainment
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Arts and Entertainment I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Arts and Entertainment
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
"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) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Arts and Entertainment "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment
