Cabatlas - This course prepares the candidate to undertake the City of Abedeen Taxi Driver Street Knowledge Test.
Aberdeen Organisms - Students at an Aberdeen school have made short descriptions of the plants and animals found in their area as part of a Comenius Project.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Education
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "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) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Education "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 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Education
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Education
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Education He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen My other wife is beautiful. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Education Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Education
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Education "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Education
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Education A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Education
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Education Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Education
