Gerry Jones - Organist, folk-musician and caller. Includes information about local folk dance groups, and lyrics to Liverpool songs.
Martin's Dance Centre - Adult and children's ballroom dance classes. Information about classes and their shop.
Merseyside Dance and Drama Centre - Academy for performing arts, including theatre, ballet, contemporary and modern dance. Information about children's classes, and college entry.
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Dance Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Dance
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Dance Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Dance
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Dance To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Dance
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Dance The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dance
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "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) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Dance And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Dance
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Dance Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Dance
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Dance Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Dance
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Dance "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Dance
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Dance To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Dance
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Dance Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Dance
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Dance Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Dance
