Felsted School - An independent, co-educational boarding and day school.
Felsted Primary School - Offers prospectus, newsletter, staff, governors, PTA and a tour.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Education Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Education
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Education Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Education
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "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' "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Education Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Education
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "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) Education "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Education
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Education
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels My other wife is beautiful. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Education The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Education
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Education Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Education
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Education You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Education
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Education My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Education
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Education He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou 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 Education
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Education To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Education
