Swan Lane First School - Information for parents, tours of the school, children's work and a diary.
Media Masterclasses. - Interview and presentation courses for radio and television, based at the BBC Centre for Broadcast Skills Training.
Vale of Evesham School - Includes motto and aims, details of admissions policy and residential provision, and a diary of school events and term dates.
Prince Henry's High School - Includes an events calendar, photographs, and articles from the school newsletter. Also information for student and staff applications.
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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Education The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Education
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Education I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Education Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Education
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Education
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Education Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Education
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Education
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Education
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Education Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Marriage is a rest period between romances. Education
