Cranbrook School - Grant maintained boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Provides information on the curriculum, admissions, facilities and sports activities.
Dulwich Preparatory School - Boarding and day school for children aged 3 to 13. Includes history, calendar, ISI report, curriculum information, alumni section and examples of the pupils' work.
Angley School - Includes curriculum information, OfSTED report, who's who, events calendar and catchment maps.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Education
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Education "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Education
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Education The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Education
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Education We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "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) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Education
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Education Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education
"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) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 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 Education
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "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) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Education
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown 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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Education Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Education
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Education
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Education blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Education
