Ailwyn School - Secondary school based in Ramsey, near Huntingdon.
Huntingdon Regional College - Community-based further education college providing courses from GCSE to degree level.
Marine Dipper - Dr Dipper is an award-winner marine science writer, educationalist, marine biologist, underwater photographer and researcher. Offers school visits, books, and photographs.
Huntingdonshire Music School - Provides musical instrument tuition, voice training, theory lessons and ensemble/orchestra to adults and children. 6 to 81 age range.
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Education It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "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) Education "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Education Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Education
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Education We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Education
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Education "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Education
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Education Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
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 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 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 Education blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Education
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Education
"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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Education
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Education I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
