Thurleigh Lower School - Information about this small school, activities, curriculum and forthcoming events.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Education
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Education
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Education
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Education If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Education
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Education "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Education "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Education
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Education I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Education The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Education
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Education Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
