Brynmawr School - Secondary school in Brynmawr which contains some sample work from the different departments.
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Education You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Education
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Education "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Education I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Education
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Education Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Education
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Education
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Education
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Education
