Shortwood Infant School - A small 'village style' infant school situated in an urban area very close to Heathrow airport.
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Education Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Education
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "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) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Education All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Education
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel 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 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Education
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Education Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Education
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Education A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Education "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Education You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Education
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Education
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Education Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Education
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Education "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "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) Education
