Park Place School - An attempt to locate and contact former pupils and teachers of Park Place School, Remenham, which closed in 1988. Includes news, history, information, gallery, pupils, staff and contact details.
Henley Photographic Club - Contains programme, news, membership details and costs, contacts and gallery of photographs.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Society and Culture
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Society and Culture "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Society and Culture
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 Society and Culture
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Society and Culture If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture
"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) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Society and Culture The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "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) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture
