English Language Tuition - Invite students from abroad to stay in their cottage near Newbury to learn English.
Vacational Studies - Residential four-week English Language Courses for 11-17 year-olds in school summer holidays in boarding schools in the countryside around Newbury, Berkshire, England.
Acres of Fun - Child nursery care. Details of facilities with photographs.
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Education Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Education
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 Education Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Education "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Education
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Education He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Education I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Education
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Education He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Education Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Education Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Education
