East Malling Singers - Amateur mixed choir. Includes information about the choir, location, events, reviews, a photo album and short audio extracts.
Phoenix Wrestling Promotions - Wrestling promoters. Includes wrestler profiles and photos, wrestling school, events and discussion.
The Malling School - Co-educational high school for ages 11 to 16, plus consortium sixth form with three other schools. Includes curriculum information, newsletters and documents for parents.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea East Malling Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) East Malling
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) East Malling When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k East Malling
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's East Malling Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "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) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France East Malling
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller East Malling In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi East Malling
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings East Malling "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop East Malling
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming East Malling All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 East Malling
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns East Malling Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) East Malling
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer East Malling Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein East Malling
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes East Malling Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde East Malling
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf East Malling Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) East Malling
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict East Malling 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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait East Malling
