Mount Lourdes Grammar School - Catholic girls' secondary school. Includes prospectus, history, location and examples of pupils' work.
St Michael's College - Catholic boys' school. Features a guide to the curriculum, plus news and a location map.
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Education Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Education
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Jeff Raskin This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Education "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Education The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education "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 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Education The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Education
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Education Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Education
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Education I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Education
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Education
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Education A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
