Prince Henry's Grammar School - An 11-18 comprehensive and specialist Language College. Includes their prospectus, information about departments and sixth form, calendar and news.
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Secondary Schools The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Secondary Schools
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Secondary Schools You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 Secondary Schools
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Secondary Schools
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Secondary Schools Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Secondary Schools
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Secondary Schools Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Secondary Schools
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Secondary Schools A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Secondary Schools
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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Secondary Schools He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Secondary Schools
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Secondary Schools "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Secondary Schools
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Secondary Schools The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Secondary Schools
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Secondary Schools "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Secondary Schools "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Secondary Schools
