Former Manchester High School of Art - Site of former school, pathfinder in international art education, old friends contact. Lists general information, help page and reunion details.
St Augustine's Grammar School Old Boys - Memories insight and memorablia from this former Catholic boys' grammar school in the 60s-70s under the charismatic and individual headship of the Rt Rev Monsignor Frank J McGuiness. Lists a visitors book, search, contents and what's new.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Reunions You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Reunions
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 This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Reunions "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Reunions
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reunions Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Reunions
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Reunions The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Reunions
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Reunions Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Reunions
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Reunions "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Reunions
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Reunions "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Reunions Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "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) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Reunions
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Reunions The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Reunions
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Reunions Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Reunions
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Reunions Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "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) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Reunions
