Kent Adult Education Service - Central listing of adult education centres in Kent. News and event, map of centres and fee structure.
South Kent College - College of Further Education with sites at Ashford, Folkestone, Dover, Deal and New Romney. Courses, facilities, news, location and employment opportunities.
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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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Colleges and Universities "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Colleges and Universities
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Colleges and Universities If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Colleges and Universities
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Colleges and Universities The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Colleges and Universities
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges and Universities The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Colleges and Universities
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Colleges and Universities The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Colleges and Universities
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Colleges and Universities The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Colleges and Universities
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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Colleges and Universities Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Colleges and Universities
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Colleges and Universities "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Colleges and Universities
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Colleges and Universities "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Colleges and Universities
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Colleges and Universities The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Colleges and Universities My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Colleges and Universities
