Epsom College - Independent co-educational boarding and day, aged from 13 to 18 years. Includes history, entry requirements, news and calendar.
Little Hands Nursery - Two locations in Epsom. Profile, activities, times and prices, and examples of pupils' work.
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Education Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Education I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Education
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Education It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "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 "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Education
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Education
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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 "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 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Education
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Education Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Education
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Education If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education
