Village Players - Based in Everton. Site includes company details, repertoire, and e-mail booking.
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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." ( We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Bawtry To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Bawtry
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bawtry What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Bawtry
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Bawtry If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Bawtry
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Bawtry "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Bawtry
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Bawtry The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Bawtry
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Bawtry Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Bawtry
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Bawtry Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Bawtry
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Bawtry The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Bawtry
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Bawtry When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Bawtry
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Bawtry When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Bawtry
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Bawtry Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bawtry
