Brantham Amateur Theatrical Society - Village group performing musicals and plays. Includes information on annual play festival, workshops for younger members, social activities and video clips.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Brantham A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Brantham
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Brantham Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Brantham
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Brantham The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Brantham
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Brantham Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Brantham
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Brantham In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 Brantham
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Brantham The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Brantham
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Brantham "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Brantham
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Brantham The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Brantham
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Brantham Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Brantham
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Brantham There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Brantham
"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) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Brantham "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Brantham
