Education Horizons - Organises conferences for headteachers and school governors. Details of current and future programmes.
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-- Tom Robbins The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Education
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Education Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Education
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Education Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Education
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Education History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Education
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "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) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Education May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Education The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Education
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Education Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost 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 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Education Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Education Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Education
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Education
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Education
