John Byrom Quotes

“Some say compared to Bononcini That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!”

“I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.”

“Kindness is like a muscle, the more we exercise it the better we are at it.Kindness starts as a thought but ends as an action. Acting kindly toward others is the only real way to let people know we care about them and their happiness. Without action, kindness just lives in our minds but never touches the real world.Being kind to others doesn’t have to be complex or fancy. Sometimes the simplest acts of kindness are seen as the most sincere, such as holding the door, helping with directions, saying “please” and “thank you,” or even just a smile.”

“Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.”

“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”

“Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.”

“An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.”

“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”

“To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.”

“... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.”