Longdean School - An established 11-18 comprehensive school.
John F Kennedy RC School - A Catholic comprehensive school with over 1000 students on roll including 170 in the sixth form. Students aged 11 to 18 years.
Gaddesden Row JMI School - Junior mixed infant village School of around children in two classes. Site contains a lot of information about the subjects taught and the school in general.
Lockers Park School - Independent boarding preparatory school for boys aged 7 to 13+. Profile, curriculum, events and news.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Education
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Education
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Education
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Education The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Education
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Education Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Education The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Education
