The Lady Elizabeth School - Offers a comprehensive education to children using the English National Curriculum. Situated at Javea and Lliber in Alicante.
Wingate School - Authorised British school in Tenerife. Follows National Curriculum including SATs and IGCSEs.
Queen's College - British school on the Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce British To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige British
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! British "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) British
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man British Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody British
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) British Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. British
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. British If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) British
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld British The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside British
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous British A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) British
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw British History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack British
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman British Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire British
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin 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) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) British Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) British
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous British Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) British
