Hitchin Boys' School - The School is split into three sections - Lower (Years 7-9), Middle (Years 10 and 11) and the Sixth Form. Information on curriculum, aims, parents area and old boys club.
St Michael's College - History of St Michael's College, Hitchin, Herts 1903-1968
Hitchin British Schools - British Schools in Queen Street has a unique set of buildings that tell the story of education in this town from 1810 until 1945.
St Andrew's School - A voluntary aided Church of England Primary School.
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Education Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Education "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Education
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "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) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Education
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Education
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "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 Education
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Education "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Education
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Education
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Education If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Education
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Education
