Farmor's School, Fairford - An 11-18 mixed comprehensive. Students of all abilities come from a wide area within rural south eastern Gloucestershire and parts of Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Fairford Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Fairford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Fairford Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Fairford
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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Fairford Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Fairford
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fairford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "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 Fairford
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Fairford There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Fairford
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Fairford The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Fairford
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Fairford "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Fairford
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Fairford "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Fairford
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Fairford "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Fairford "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Fairford
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Fairford It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Fairford
