Etonbury Middle School - Details on the school, its facilities and staff details, plus an art gallery and examples of work by pupils.
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Education Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Education
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Education To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Education
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Education Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Education
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Education I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Education There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Education
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Education "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Education
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Education May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Education "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Education But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Education
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Education "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 Education
