Henley College, Oxfordshire - A tertiary college serving Oxfordshire, Berkshire & Buckinghamshire offering A levels, GNVQs, BTEC National Diplomas and other courses.
Henley Management College - Located in Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. This site deals with the partnership between the college and a group of corporate clients to provide training and development events.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Education
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Education
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West 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 Education Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I 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) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Education
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Education
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Education "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Education
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Education The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Education The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Education
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Education "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Education
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Education And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Education
