The Halifax Thespians - An amateur group that owns and runs the Halifax Playhouse. Information about the groups and upcoming performances.
Northern Broadsides Theatre Compmany - Touring company performing classic texts. Information about current, future and past productions, message board and contact details.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Theatre I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Theatre
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Theatre Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Theatre
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Theatre Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Theatre
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Theatre All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Theatre
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Theatre The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Theatre
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Theatre
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Theatre What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Theatre
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Theatre "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theatre
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Theatre Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Theatre
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Theatre The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Theatre
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 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Theatre "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Theatre
