Bramhall High School - Secondary school. Details of departments, curriculum, news and Comenius project.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Education To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "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) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Education
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Education When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Education There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Education
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "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) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Education Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach 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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Education "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Education
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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 Education If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Education
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Education I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Education Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Education
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Education Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Education
