Longsands College - Secondary school for ages 11 to 18 and adult education. Profile, prospectus and curriculum with information about the Ofsted report.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous 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 Education Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Education "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Education
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Education Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Education If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Education
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Education Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Education
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Education Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Education
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Education A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education
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 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Education I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
