Stanbridge Earls School - Independent, co-educational, boarding and day school for pupils of 11 to 18, specialising in problems affecting those with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties.
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Education An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Education
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Education We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Education Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Education
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Education
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Education We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Education
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Education In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Education
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Education
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "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) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Education "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash 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 Education
