Casterton School - Private girls school in Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale.
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I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Education Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Education
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Education
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Education
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Education Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Education
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Education
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Education
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Education The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Education
