Ferrers School, The - An 11 - 19 co-educational comprehensive school, which opened in 1980. It has just over 1000 students.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Higham Ferrers May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Higham Ferrers
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Higham Ferrers A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 Higham Ferrers
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Higham Ferrers A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Higham Ferrers
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Higham Ferrers A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Higham Ferrers
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Higham Ferrers "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Higham Ferrers
"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) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Higham Ferrers Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Higham Ferrers
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Higham Ferrers Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Higham Ferrers
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Higham Ferrers I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Higham Ferrers
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Higham Ferrers In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Higham Ferrers
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Higham Ferrers To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Higham Ferrers
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Higham Ferrers Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Higham Ferrers
