Sedgley College - Centenary news and photographs for this former FCJ teacher training college.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Reunions and Alumni Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Reunions and Alumni
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Reunions and Alumni "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Reunions and Alumni
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Reunions and Alumni There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Reunions and Alumni
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Reunions and Alumni "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Reunions and Alumni
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Reunions and Alumni Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reunions and Alumni
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 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Reunions and Alumni My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Reunions and Alumni
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Reunions and Alumni There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Reunions and Alumni
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Reunions and Alumni Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reunions and Alumni
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reunions and Alumni Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Reunions and Alumni
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Reunions and Alumni I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Reunions and Alumni
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Reunions and Alumni 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, "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Reunions and Alumni
