UWE Alumni - Association for former students of the University of the West of England (formerly Bristol Polytechnic): news, reunions and membership information.
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Old Fairfieldians' Society - Alumni of Fairfield Grammar School: aims, membership, reunions, newsletter, events and contact details.
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Reunions and Alumni Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Reunions and Alumni
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Reunions and Alumni Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Reunions and Alumni
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Reunions and Alumni The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Reunions and Alumni
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Reunions and Alumni To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Reunions and Alumni
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Reunions and Alumni "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Reunions and Alumni
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Reunions and Alumni My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Reunions and Alumni
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Reunions and Alumni If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Reunions and Alumni
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Reunions and Alumni University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Reunions and Alumni
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Reunions and Alumni Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Reunions and Alumni
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Reunions and Alumni Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Reunions and Alumni
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Reunions and Alumni 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 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 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Reunions and Alumni
