Morris in the Forrest - Annual Morris Dancing festival, with schedule of events and photos.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land 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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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-- Robert Orben Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Arts and Entertainment The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Arts and Entertainment
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Arts and Entertainment "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Arts and Entertainment To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) 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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews Arts and Entertainment He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Arts and Entertainment At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Latin Proverb "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment
