Le Crunch French Apples - Educational and entertainment resource for schoolchildren, with competitions, prizes and games, in addition to a section which teachers can use for classes.
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Primary Schools I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Primary Schools
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Primary Schools "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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Primary Schools
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Primary Schools Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Primary Schools
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Primary Schools The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Primary Schools
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Primary Schools It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Primary Schools
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Primary Schools I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Primary Schools
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Primary Schools Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Primary Schools
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Primary Schools See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Primary Schools
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Primary Schools "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Primary Schools
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Primary Schools Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Primary Schools
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson What's new? Most of my wife. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Primary Schools "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Primary Schools
