Harlands Primary School - A Primary School (ages 5-11) situated on the south side of Uckfield.
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Education If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Education
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Education Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Education
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Education Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Education
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "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 "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Education
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Education
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Education 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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Education
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Education
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Education Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Education A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education
