Hoodening: the Hooden Horse - An ancient East Kentish tradition revived, with short humorous performances in pubs and private houses in the week before Christmas.
Country Dance UK - Country Music and Line Dancing - a reference for the UK Traveller and holiday maker.
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Folk Dancing Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Folk Dancing
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Folk Dancing Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Folk Dancing
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Folk Dancing A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Folk Dancing
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "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 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Folk Dancing A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Folk Dancing
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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Folk Dancing Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Folk Dancing
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Folk Dancing I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Folk Dancing
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Folk Dancing The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Folk Dancing
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Folk Dancing 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Folk Dancing
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Folk Dancing Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Folk Dancing
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Folk Dancing Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Folk Dancing
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Folk Dancing Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Folk Dancing
