Gilwern School - Junior and infant school in Gilwern. Important dates and statistics can be found on the site for pupils of the school.
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Education
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Education Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Education
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Education
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Education I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Education "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Education
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Education "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Education "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
