The Morfa Singers - Village choir of female voices. Includes history, concerts, competitions, recordings, and photo gallery.
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Arts and Entertainment "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Arts and Entertainment
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Arts and Entertainment Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "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
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Arts and Entertainment
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Arts and Entertainment
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "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) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Arts and Entertainment "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Arts and Entertainment
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Arts and Entertainment I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Arts and Entertainment Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi 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, A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Arts and Entertainment
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Arts and Entertainment
