Warwickshire College - Courses, college facilities, events and information for parents. Royal Leamington Spa and Moreton Morrell.
The Chatback Trust - Links up schools for special projects. Fascinating!
Bilton Grange School - An independent day and boarding preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys and girls aged between 4 and 13. Dunchurch.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Education The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Education
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Education He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education
"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 "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.) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Education Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Education
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Education 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 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Education
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Education
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Education If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Education
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Education May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Education
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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Education
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Education
