Redborne Upper School - Upper school catering for 13-18 year olds. Provides pictures of the grounds, curriculum and contact details.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Education
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Education
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Education
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Education The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Education
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Education Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Education
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Education
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Education I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Education
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Education I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Education Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Education
