West Lothian Council Education Services - This site provides information on the work of the education services department of West Lothian Council. It also allows students to check their email.
Linlithgow Academy - Provides school information, publications, local links and contact details.
Clifton Hall School - Private, co-educational, primary and nursery establishment, on the western fringes of Midlothian. Lists fees, term, history, entry procedures and staff details.
Oatridge College - Offering environment and conservation courses for part and full-time participants. Provides course information, online registration and support forum.
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Education To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Education
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Education
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Education
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Education
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Education Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Education
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 Education Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Education
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Education I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
