Chafford Hundred Campus - Nursery, primary and secondary school with public facilities. Details of each department with newsletter, overview and FAQ plus public library, adult education and community resources.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Chafford Hundred "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry 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 Chafford Hundred
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Chafford Hundred Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Chafford Hundred
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Chafford Hundred "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Chafford Hundred
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Chafford Hundred Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Chafford Hundred
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Chafford Hundred Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Chafford Hundred
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Chafford Hundred If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Chafford Hundred
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Chafford Hundred If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Chafford Hundred
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Chafford Hundred The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Chafford Hundred
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Chafford Hundred 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 "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Chafford Hundred
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Chafford Hundred "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Chafford Hundred
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Chafford Hundred Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Chafford Hundred
