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Regent House School - Information and news for pupils - past and present.

Newtownards Model Primary School - Offers details of the curriculum, extra curricular activities, history and staff.

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying Education We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Education "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 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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words "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 My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Education "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Education "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Education It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous 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 Education A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Education "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Education Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Education Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Education "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Education A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Education If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Education Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Education Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Education Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Education Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Education The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Education
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