Castle Players - Amateur dramatics company who stage two main productions each season. Includes forthcoming plays, booking information, and archives.
Lytchett Matravers Parish Council - Information about the councillors, links to web sites in the village, Parish newsletter and meetings.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Lytchett Matravers "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Lytchett Matravers
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Lytchett Matravers Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Lytchett Matravers
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Lytchett Matravers "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Lytchett Matravers
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Lytchett Matravers cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Lytchett Matravers
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Lytchett Matravers Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Lytchett Matravers
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is >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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Lytchett Matravers An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Lytchett Matravers
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Lytchett Matravers In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Lytchett Matravers
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lytchett Matravers 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Lytchett Matravers
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Lytchett Matravers Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Lytchett Matravers
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Lytchett Matravers The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Lytchett Matravers
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lytchett Matravers "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Lytchett Matravers
