Cambridgeshire Business Training Centres - Network of centres based in community and village colleges across the county. Includes the aims of the organisation, FAQ, location of individual establishments and contacts.
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Education
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Education The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Education No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William 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 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Education Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Education
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Education Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Education
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Education They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Education
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Education
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Education A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Education
