Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) - Professional organisation and trade union for teachers and lecturers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with information on pay and conditions.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Association of Teachers and Lecturers The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Association of Teachers and Lecturers
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Association of Teachers and Lecturers "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Association of Teachers and Lecturers
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Association of Teachers and Lecturers Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Association of Teachers and Lecturers
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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Association of Teachers and Lecturers Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Association of Teachers and Lecturers
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Association of Teachers and Lecturers "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Association of Teachers and Lecturers
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Association of Teachers and Lecturers Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Association of Teachers and Lecturers
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Association of Teachers and Lecturers Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Association of Teachers and Lecturers
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Association of Teachers and Lecturers Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Association of Teachers and Lecturers Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Association of Teachers and Lecturers
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Association of Teachers and Lecturers The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Association of Teachers and Lecturers
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Association of Teachers and Lecturers Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Association of Teachers and Lecturers
