Leeds Centre for Indian Music and Dance - Information on events, and workshop programme in Indian music and dance. Photo gallery, events calendar, and introduction to music, instruments and dance.
Leeds Contra Dance - High voltage barn dancing - information on the group. Details of joining and meetings.
Northern Ballet Theatre - Touring ballet company based in Leeds. Information on production, artists, and tour dates. Details of education programme, and membership of Friends scheme.
Cheyenne Western Dancing - Description of line-dancing classes, dance evenings, and disco. Contact details.
Leeds Morris Men - Bringing the dances of ancient Cotswold villages to modern cosmopolitan Leeds. Information on Morris dancing, the group, and events diary.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Dance A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Dance
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Dance "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Dance
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Dance Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Dance
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "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 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Dance The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Dance
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Dance The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Dance
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Dance "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Dance
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Dance The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Dance
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dance Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Dance
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Dance It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Dance "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Dance
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Dance Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Dance
