Wirral Metropolitan College - College of further education offering courses from basic skills to degree and post-graduate qualifications. Site provides details on the courses available, and also describes its corporate services.
Wirral Parent Partnership - A local charity supporting and enabling parents and carers of children with special education needs. Information about services and volunteer training.
Wirral Learning Grid - Information technology education and access project. Teacher, parent, student and governor resources, information about technical support services, and links to related sites.
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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Education You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Education
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Education We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Education
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Education
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Education A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Education
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Education I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Education
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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Education I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Education
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Education Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Education
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Education Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Education
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "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) Education
