Opera Fringe - Annual event in Down District. Includes local information and event programme.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Arts and Entertainment The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Arts and Entertainment
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Arts and Entertainment "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Arts and Entertainment
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 Arts and Entertainment
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Arts and Entertainment I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Arts and Entertainment
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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Arts and Entertainment
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Arts and Entertainment "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Arts and Entertainment
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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Arts and Entertainment And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Arts and Entertainment
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Arts and Entertainment It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Arts and Entertainment
