Burgoyne Middle School - School details, facilities, information for parents and pupils and the school's inspection report.
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "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) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Education Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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 Education
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr May you never leave your marriage alive. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Education
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Education It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Education
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous 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 worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Education The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Education "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Education
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Education Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "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) Education
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Education The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Education
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Education "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Education
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Education Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education
