Upton Hall School, FCJ - Roman Catholic grammar school for girls aged 11-18 years. Includes information about their aims and curriculum, and term calendars.
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Education "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Education
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Education When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Education
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Education You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Education
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Education "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Education
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Education Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Education
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Education "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Education Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "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 Education
