North East Wales Institute of Higher Education - Associated with the University of Wales. Information about student life, courses, school, and departments, conference, events, and open days.
Alexandra School - A history of the school, which closed in December 1999. Includes copies of the log books, class photographs, and details of school achievements.
Yale College - Includes college facts, and information about student services, facilities, courses, application and enrollment procedures, fees, and job vacancies. Online enrollment available for some courses.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Education
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Education
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education 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, He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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, Education
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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" Education 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 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Education There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Education
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Education "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Education Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Education
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Education "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Education
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Education I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Education The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Education
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Education Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education
