Birchensale Middle School - Provides a list of term dates, together with school information, parents' newsletter, and details of clubs as downloadable MS Word documents.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Education As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Education No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Education
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Education The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Education
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Education You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Education
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Education
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Education "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "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) 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 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Education
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Education Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Education
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Education
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Education Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Education
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Education Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Education
