Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen - A bilingual county comprehensive school that has served the Ogwen Valley area for over one hundred years.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Education "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 theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Education
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "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) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Education I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Education My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Education Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Education When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Education
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (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 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Education The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Education
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Education This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Education
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Education Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Education
