Royal Manor School - Designed and constructed entirely by the pupils of the school, this site has a link farm, information about Portland, and an introduction to the school.
St George's Infant School - Educates children between the ages of 4 - 7 in Easton, on the Isle of Portland.
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Education "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Education Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Education
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe 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 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Education "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole May you never leave your marriage alive. Education A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Education
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Education I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Education Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Education The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 May you never leave your marriage alive. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education
