The History of Park Hall - Contains old photographs of the school along with information about its history and previous teachers and pupils.
"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) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Tom K. Ryan Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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-- Calvin Society and Culture
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 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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-- Mark Russell A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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-- Seen on a t-shirt My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Paul Tillich Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Society and Culture
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Society and Culture 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 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "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." A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Society and Culture
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Society and Culture
