Bethersden CP School - Description of the school and examples of extracurricular activities offered.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Bethersden To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bethersden
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Bethersden My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Bethersden
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Bethersden In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Bethersden
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Bethersden When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Bethersden
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Bethersden That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Bethersden
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Bethersden In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bethersden
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Bethersden "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Bethersden
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bethersden Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Bethersden
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Bethersden "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Bethersden
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Bethersden Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Bethersden
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Bethersden We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Bethersden
