Lanark Grammar School - Details of the school and its history, including pages for several departments and extra curricular activities. There is also a contact page for former pupils and homework and revision help.
Carmyle Driving Centre - Offers a full range of lessons, courses, refreshers and instructor training.
Bell College of Technology, Hamilton - Provides academic, student, course and leisure information. Intranet and administration details are also included,
Eileen McRobert - Offers tuition to primary school aged children in all subjects. Contact details.
Rutherglen Academy Pictures - Included with the photographic gallery are a guest book and a teacher memories section.
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Education It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Education My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Education Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Education
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Education
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Education
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 Education What's new? Most of my wife. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
