Adlington Music and Arts Society - Amateur dramatic and operatic society, provides details of future and previous productions, social events and how to join.
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-- Groucho Marx "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Martin H. Fischer Adlington
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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-- Napoleon Bonaparte English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Adlington The best defense is a good offense.
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- Oscar Wilde "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Adlington
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr Adlington
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Adlington In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Adlington The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln Adlington Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill Adlington
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Adlington A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Adlington
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Adlington I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Adlington
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Do or do not. There is no try.
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looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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