Kingham Hill School - A co-educational 11-19 independent boarding and day school in the heart of the Cotswolds.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Secondary Schools "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools
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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Secondary Schools
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Secondary Schools Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Secondary Schools
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 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 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Secondary Schools The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Secondary Schools
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 Secondary Schools Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover 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 Secondary Schools
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Secondary Schools Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Secondary Schools
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Secondary Schools "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Secondary Schools
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Secondary Schools "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Secondary Schools
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "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) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "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) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Secondary Schools The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Secondary Schools
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Secondary Schools The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Secondary Schools
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Secondary Schools When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Secondary Schools
