Wellfield School - Secondary school teaching ages 11-16. Details of curriculum, staff, school plan, brochure and photographs.
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wingate To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Wingate
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Wingate It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Wingate
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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Wingate The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Wingate
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Wingate When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Wingate
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Wingate The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wingate
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Wingate If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Wingate
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Wingate Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Wingate
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Wingate God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Wingate
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Wingate Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "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) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Wingate
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Wingate Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Wingate
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Wingate I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Wingate
