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Circus Scene - Jugglers, stiltwalkers, entertainers and clowns for fairs, festivals and parties for children and adults. Information and enquiry form.
OBJ Border Morris - Mixed Morris side loosely following the Border tradition. Programme of events, booking and membership information.
Wokingham Theatre - Local theatre supported entirely by its members. Includes production schedule, ticket booking and membership details.
Wokingham District Arts Council (WDAC) - Promoting arts in the district. Describes its activities, grant applications and photo archive.
Scrumptious House - Children's theatre and children's parties. Booking and contact details.
Wokingham Libraries - Includes opening hours and details of resources available.
Ceramic Paws - Studio for painting ceramics. Details of facilities and services.
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. 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These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Arts and Entertainment Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Arts and Entertainment Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Arts and Entertainment "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Arts and Entertainment See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "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) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Arts and Entertainment All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Arts and Entertainment A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. 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