Arcadia Players - Amateur theatre group performing plays in the Skipton and Bradford area. Forthcoming plays and information for potential new members.
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Theatre "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Theatre
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Theatre He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Theatre
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Theatre You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Theatre
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Theatre You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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 Theatre
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Theatre Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Theatre
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Theatre If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Theatre
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Theatre I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Theatre
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Theatre By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Theatre I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Theatre
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Theatre "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Theatre
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Theatre It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Theatre
