Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Abercynon - Welsh primary school. Includes diary, events, pupil work, and staff details. [English/Cymraeg]
"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 There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Education Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Education
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Education The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Education "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Education
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Education
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Education Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Education
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Education
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Education
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Education "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Education
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education
