Ysgol Dyffryn Iâl - Twinned site school located in Bryneglwys and Llandegla, Ages 4-11 years: Contains pertinent information and aerial photographs of the buildings.
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Education Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Education
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland 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
of "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Education "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Education
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Education
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Education
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Education Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Education blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Education
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "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) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Education "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Education
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Education Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Education
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Education
"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) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Education I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Education
