Formby High School - Includes term dates, and brief introductions to the curriculum, extra-curricular activities and the PTA.
The Friends Of Holy Trinity School - Organisation helping the local primary school. Includes information about their activities and the school itself.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Education 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Education
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Education
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Education He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Education Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain May you never leave your marriage alive. Education
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Education "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Education "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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "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 Education
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Nietzsche Education Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Education
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Education Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous 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 Education
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Education "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Education "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Education
