Solihull Film Society - Meets monthly September to April. Includes information on programme, membership and news.
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Arts and Entertainment "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment
"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) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Arts and Entertainment
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Arts and Entertainment The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Arts and Entertainment
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Arts and Entertainment Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Arts and Entertainment
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Arts and Entertainment The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Arts and Entertainment
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Arts and Entertainment All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Arts and Entertainment
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Arts and Entertainment The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 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, "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Arts and Entertainment Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Arts and Entertainment
