Saint Brendan's College - Includes details of the school, its facilities and its achievements.
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Education "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Education
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Education "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Education
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Education
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Education 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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Education
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Education I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "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) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Education "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Education
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Education
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Education The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education
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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Education Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education
