St Peter's School - Independent prep school. Profile and history with information about each department.
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Lympstone The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Lympstone
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Lympstone The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Lympstone
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Lympstone "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Lympstone
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Lympstone 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 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Lympstone
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Lympstone Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Lympstone
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 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Lympstone I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "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) Lympstone
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Lympstone 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 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Lympstone
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Lympstone Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lympstone
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Lympstone If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Lympstone
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lympstone The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Lympstone
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Lympstone The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Lympstone
