St Joseph's Convent Grammar School - Catholic voluntary school for girls. Includes information on the different departments, such as music, drama and sports. Located in Donaghmore.
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Education
"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) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Education
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Education
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Education A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Education
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Education The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Education
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Education I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Education
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Education A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Education
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Education "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Education
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Education Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education
