Moon Hall School for Dyslexic Children - School catering for bright dyslexic children aged 7 - 13 years. The site offers very full information about every aspect of the school including an online prospectus.
The Priory School - A Voluntary Aided Church of England School, which is co-educational and comprehensive, catering for students of all abilities in the 11-19 age range. Includes the prospectus, list of departments and details about the 'Friends of the Priory' support group.
Dorking - The official web site for the historic Surrey market town of Dorking. Information for both residents, visitors and tourists.
Dorking Town information - A guide to Dorking its location, local shops and businesses, places to visit, schools, useful information, discussion forum and small advertisements.
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Dorking Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Dorking
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Dorking "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Dorking
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Dorking People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Dorking
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Dorking Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Dorking
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. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Dorking Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Dorking
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Dorking Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Dorking
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Dorking If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Dorking
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Dorking Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Dorking
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Dorking The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Dorking
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Dorking "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Dorking
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Dorking Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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