Bedfordshire Schools - The County Council's Official Guide. Describes resources for students, teachers and administrators. Includes links to many schools.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Resources for Educators We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Resources for Educators
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Resources for Educators 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Resources for Educators
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Resources for Educators "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Resources for Educators
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Resources for Educators Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Resources for Educators
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Resources for Educators Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran May you never leave your marriage alive. Resources for Educators
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "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) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Resources for Educators Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Resources for Educators
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Resources for Educators "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Resources for Educators
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Resources for Educators All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Resources for Educators
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Resources for Educators Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Resources for Educators
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Resources for Educators "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Resources for Educators
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Resources for Educators If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Resources for Educators
