St John Fisher - Roman Catholic Primary School in Widnes Cheshire.
Fairfield High School - 11-16 mixed comprehensive school within the Unitary Authority of Halton. Includes an overview of the school, prospectus and picture gallery.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Widnes They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Widnes
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Widnes 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Widnes
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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 Widnes It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Widnes
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Widnes 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Widnes
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Widnes "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Widnes
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Widnes Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Widnes
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 Widnes Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Widnes
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Widnes The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Widnes
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Widnes Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Widnes
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha 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 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Widnes We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Widnes
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "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 Widnes Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Widnes
