Gwyl Cilcain - Annual October festival of professional music, crafts and the arts with resident ensemble. Includes schedule of events.
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Arts and Entertainment Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Arts and Entertainment
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Arts and Entertainment Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Arts and Entertainment
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Arts and Entertainment I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Arts and Entertainment
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Arts and Entertainment Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Arts and Entertainment Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Arts and Entertainment
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Arts and Entertainment Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Arts and Entertainment
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Arts and Entertainment
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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment 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 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
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 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Arts and Entertainment Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
