Four Masters School - Primary school and local information, local history, and contact numbers.
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Education "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Education
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "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) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 Education "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Education
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Education We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Education
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Education Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education 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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Education
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Education "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Education
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Education Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Education
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Education He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Education
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Education "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Education
