St Bede's School - The world's only state-funded, fully ecumenical Christian comprehensive secondary school, in the centre of Redhill
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Education Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Education
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Education
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Education
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Education "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Education Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "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) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Education
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Education
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Education Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Education
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Education
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
