Stradbroke Suffolk. - Offers details of the village the community, its history and where and what it is today.
Stradbroke High School - For pupils aged 11 - 16 years. Photos and detailed information of the staff, governors and activities.
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Stradbroke Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Stradbroke
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Stradbroke I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Stradbroke
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Stradbroke "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stradbroke
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stradbroke blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Stradbroke
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Stradbroke "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Stradbroke
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Stradbroke "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Stradbroke
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century 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 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Stradbroke All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Stradbroke
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Stradbroke "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Stradbroke
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Stradbroke When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Stradbroke
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Stradbroke For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Stradbroke
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 My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Stradbroke The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Stradbroke
