King James School - Secondary school, for students aged 11-18, in Knaresborough.
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Education I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain 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 Education
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Education Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Education
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Education May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Education
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Education
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Education If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Education
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Education "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Education
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Education
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Education Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Education
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 Education Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn 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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Education ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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