Foxfield School - For pupils age eleven to nineteen with learning disabilities. Includes information about the school, the staff, a prospectus, news, photos of pupils at work, and a link to their latest OFSTED report.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Education "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Education
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Education
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein 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 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Education "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Education If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Education
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Education
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Education Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Education
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Education
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education 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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Education Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Education
