Aphorisms Etc.

[Brownian Motion]

Musical modes are nowhere altered without changes in the most important laws of the state.

-Damon of Athens

[Brownian Motion]

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

- Hegel

[Rooster_Ties]

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair.

- Charles Ives

[BillF]

"It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing"

[Larry Kart]

"Never make the first out of an inning at third base."

-- Joe Lonnet (former Chicago White Sox coach)

"There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you."

-- Anthony Powell, "A Dance To The Music of Time"

[JSngry]

"Never make the first out of an inning at third base."

(Old baseball saying; I first heard it from former Chicago White Sox coach Joe Lonnett.)

Neither the first nor the last!

[Larry Kart]

"Never make the first out of an inning at third base."

(Old baseball saying; I first heard it from former Chicago White Sox coach Joe Lonnett.)

Neither the first nor the last!

Yes, but more so the first. The percentage of runners who score from second with no outs is virtually the same as the percentage who score from third with no outs.

[JSngry]

No doubt. I'm just recycling the aphorism as I've always heard it.

[papsrus]

Who's on first?

[JSngry]

Nobody. They all went to second!

[Rooster_Ties]

Sound can wash clothes.

- Sun Ra

[johnlitweiler]

"There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you."

-- Anthony Powell, "A Dance To The Music of Time"

Bless you for that, Larry.

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." - Ford Madox Ford

"All civilizations are kleptocracies." - William Gibson?

[Brownian Motion]

Nations are like men; they love that which flatters their passions even more than that which serves their interests.

Tocqueville

[Neal Pomea]

It's a sorry man who cannot make up an Oscar Wilde quote to fit any occasion. -- Uncyclopedia.

[A Lark Ascending]

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair.

- Charles Ives

Significance in music is often confused with something that I claim to get but most other people don't.

- Bev Stapleton

[paul secor]

From Jonathan Williams' In The Azure Over the Squalor:

Every man is his own equal! - Rick Flair (Mid-Atlantic Professional Wrestling Champion)

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back. - Elizabeth David

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention. - Guy Davenport

Few people have the imagination for reality. - Goethe

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase. - Domenico Scarlatti

There are too many ditractions. You should enter a ball park as you would enter a church. - William Francis Lee III

Trying to sneak a fastball past Henry Aaron was like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster. -Curt Simmons

The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it. - Thomas Merton

[JSngry]

A damn good lot they are who do a damn good lot!

- Major Rudsley Piffleton (Ret.)