Gharb Primary School - Includes school anthem, mission statement, development plan, activites and staff profiles.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Gharb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Gharb
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Gharb "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Gharb
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Gharb "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Gharb
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Gharb There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Gharb
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Gharb We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Gharb
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Gharb A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Gharb
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Gharb There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Gharb
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Gharb Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Gharb
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Gharb To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Gharb
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Gharb Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Gharb
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Gharb I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Gharb
