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PROPS Theatre Arts School - Dramatic theatre arts school based in Glan Conwy near Llandudno offering classes for both adults and children.
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Arts and Entertainment By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Arts and Entertainment
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Arts and Entertainment
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Arts and Entertainment
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Arts and Entertainment Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Arts and Entertainment
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Arts and Entertainment I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Arts and Entertainment "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Arts and Entertainment
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Arts and Entertainment "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts and Entertainment If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Arts and Entertainment The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment
