The St Christopher Club - The St Christopher Club is the Association for former staff and pupils of St Christopher School, Letchworth.
Summer Reunion Information - This is the main reunion organised by the Club each year. It is traditionally held at the school on the first weekend after the end of the Summer Term.
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "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' History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Old Scholars "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Old Scholars
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Old Scholars By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Old Scholars
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge My other wife is beautiful. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Old Scholars Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Old Scholars
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Old Scholars Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Old Scholars
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Old Scholars "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Old Scholars
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe 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) Old Scholars Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Old Scholars
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Old Scholars "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Old Scholars
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Old Scholars "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Old Scholars
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Old Scholars Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Old Scholars
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Old Scholars America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Old Scholars
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Old Scholars If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Old Scholars
