Friends of Pendalar School - Promoting the school, fundraising activities and efforts to get a new building.
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Caernarfon Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Caernarfon
"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) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Caernarfon I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Caernarfon
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Caernarfon My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Caernarfon
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Caernarfon Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Caernarfon
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Caernarfon "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Caernarfon
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Caernarfon "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Caernarfon
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce 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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Caernarfon The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Caernarfon
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Caernarfon For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Caernarfon
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Caernarfon I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Caernarfon
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Caernarfon Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Caernarfon
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Caernarfon Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Caernarfon
