Knockevin Special School - School for children with severe learning difficulties aged 3-19. Includes examples of the pupils' work and photos.
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 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 Education "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Education
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Education
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Education There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Education
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Education There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Education "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Education
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Education I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Education
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Education The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Education "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Education
