Austin Friars - A Roman Catholic mixed secondary school. The school takes in day pupils in addition to boarders.
Carlisle College - Offers a range of courses for 16 years and above students.
Lime House School - Dalston - Private boarding school for juniors and seniors, also specialising in dyslexic pupils, at Dalston near Carlisle.
Newman School - Catholic school within the state sector for students aged 11-18 from north-east Cumbria, both Catholics and those who are seeking an education based on Catholic principles.
St Monicas Catholic Independent Primary School - The school established in 1985 provides primary private education. A gallery of pupils pictures and information on the school is given.
Scotby Church of England Primary School - One of Cumbria's most popular and successful primary schools, serving the rural villages of Wetheral and Scotby, to the east of the city of Carlisle. News, PTA, governors report, picture gallery.
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville 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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Education
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Education We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Education
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Education
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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Education
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Education Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Education
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) 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 Education "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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 As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Education
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Education When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Education
