Lodge Hill Centre - Residential centre used throughout the year for courses such as drama, music, outdoor activities and specialised groups. Includes descriptions of facilities and activities, and a photo gallery.
Arundale School - Describes this preparatory school and its activities and results with information about governors, staff and fees, and a photo gallery.
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Education Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Education
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Education
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Education The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Education
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Education "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Education
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Education
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Education Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Education
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 Education A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Education
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Education
