Reigate School - Information about Reigate School. An 11 to 16 mixed comprehensive school in Surrey.
The Reigate Priory Junior School - Site created by the children of Reigate Priory Junior School. School trips, clubs and history.
Reigate Grammar School - Co-educational independent day school for pupils aged ten to eighteen years. At present, there are approximately 800 boys and girls in the School, of whom more than 200 are in the Sixth Form.
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Education Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Education
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert 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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Education Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Education Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Education Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Education
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Education
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty 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 always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Education
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Education
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Education "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Education
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Education
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Education There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Education
