Usk Primary School - Serves both the town and the surrounding rural catchment area.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Education
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Education
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Education Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Education
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Education "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Education
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Education Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Education
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Education
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Education
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Education A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Education
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Education Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Education Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Education
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Education "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Education
