Tredegar Orpheus Male Voice Choir - Contains details of members, history, concert dates, and the option to download MP3 samples of the choir's work.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Arts and Entertainment Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "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) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Arts and Entertainment It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Arts and Entertainment
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Arts and Entertainment You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
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? "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain 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 Arts and Entertainment Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Arts and Entertainment
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Arts and Entertainment The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Arts and Entertainment Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "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) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Arts and Entertainment If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Arts and Entertainment
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Arts and Entertainment Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment
