Aberdare Girls' School - A secondary school for girls aged 11 to 18 years. Includes prospectus and newsletter.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Education
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Education All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Education
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Education Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Education There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Education
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey 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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Education
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a rest period between romances. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Education
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Education By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Education
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Man and wife make one fool. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Education Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education
