Newtown High School - Situated in Newtown, Powys. Includes prospectus, curriculum information, school history, photo gallery and staff directory.
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Education "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Education
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "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 think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co 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 Education
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Education "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 Education
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Education Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Education
May you never leave your marriage alive. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Education Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Education
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Education If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Education "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education
