White Horse Opera - Opera Company based in the Devizes local community
Bluestone Gallery - Describes a local art gallery, includes photo tour of a selection of the items on display, location and contact details.
Devizes Film Club - Contemporary international films. General information, films, membership details and contact form.
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of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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-- Walter Savage Landor You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "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." Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Arts and Entertainment "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Arts and Entertainment In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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hung Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Arts and Entertainment
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Arts and Entertainment Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Arts and Entertainment
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Arts and Entertainment
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Arts and Entertainment Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Arts and Entertainment
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Arts and Entertainment blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Arts and Entertainment
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart To love another person is to help them love God.
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Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 Arts and Entertainment
