Scottish School Board Association - SSBA provides assistance to parents throughout Scotland; to discuss educational matters, develop national communication links and represent the opinion of parents through their School Boards.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Schools We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Schools
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Schools The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Schools
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Schools "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) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Schools
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Schools "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Schools
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Schools Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Schools
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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Schools Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "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) Schools
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Schools When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Schools
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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Schools "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Schools
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Schools I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Schools
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Schools If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Schools
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Schools Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Schools
