Harlington Upper School - Rural mixed comprehensive school for 13-18 year olds. Offers information on the school, its staff and its curriculum. Also includes the sixth form prospectus.
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Secondary Schools Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Secondary Schools
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Secondary Schools People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Secondary Schools Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Secondary Schools
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Secondary Schools I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Secondary Schools
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Secondary Schools Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Secondary Schools
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Secondary Schools "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Secondary Schools
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Secondary Schools
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Secondary Schools If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Secondary Schools
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Secondary Schools Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Secondary Schools
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Secondary Schools "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Secondary Schools
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Secondary Schools "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Secondary Schools
