Flora McDonald Junior School Website - Contains information about the school, subjects and links as well as examples of children's work and their activities.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Education Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Education
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Education The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Education "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Education
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Education "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Education I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Education
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Education
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Education Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Education "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Education "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Education Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Education
