Ysgol Y Borth - Primary school attended by the children from the town of Menai Bridge as well as the villages of llansawdwrn and Rhoscefnhir.
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "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) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Education A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Education
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Education
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Education An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Education
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Education If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Education
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Education
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Education "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Education Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Education If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Education
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Education
