Flitwick Lower School - Information on the school, curriculum, out-of-hours activities and standards.
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Education Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Education
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Education
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Education "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Education
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Education I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Education
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education "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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Education "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Education
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Education An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Education
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Education All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "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) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Education Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Education
