Cobham Hall - Independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18. Includes prospectus and school diary.
Cobham Primary School - State school for ages 4 to 11. Includes school information, calendar, uniform order form, picture gallery, recent events and Parent Teacher Association.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Education
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Education
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Education
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Education
"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) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Education
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Education He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Education A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Education
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Education
