Our Lady's Chetwynde School - A co-educational non-selective day school in Barrow, with 580 pupils on the roll and accepting pupils from Kindergarten to Sixth Form.
Furness College - Cumbrian college of further education, in Barrow-in-Furness.
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Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Education
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Education Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) 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 difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Education
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Education "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Education
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Education "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Education Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Education It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Education
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Education We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Education
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Education
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Education "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Education
