Oakdene School Old Girls' Website - For pupils and teachers of this school which closed in 1992. Includes pictures, memories, history and contact lists.
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Education Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Education "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Education
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Education
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Education
Marriage is a rest period between romances. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Education The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Education
"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) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Education If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Education If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Education By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Education
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 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Education
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Education "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Education
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Education "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education
