Abbey Hill School - Instructs students between the ages of eleven and nineteen who have a wide range of learning difficulties. All students, regardless of handicap, learning difficulty or behavioral problem have access to a full and challenging curriculum which addresses their individual needs and extends their opportunities for learning. Stockton-on-Tees.
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Education The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Education
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Education Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Education "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Education
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Education I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Education
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Education Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Education
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Education Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University 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 Education
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Education I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
