St Augustine's - A Catholic technology college serving students aged 11 to 18 years in Wiltshire and North Somerset.
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Education The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Education
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Education No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Education
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Education "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Education
"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, I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Education I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 Education
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Education The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Education
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Education We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Education "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education
