South Wirral High School - Includes information about the sixth form, clubs and societies, and the school's performance.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Anyway, 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,
ign blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Education Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Education
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Education "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Education
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Education You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Education
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Education "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Education
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Education The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Education I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black 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 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 Education
