Cox Green School - Secondary school features sections for parents and for pupils, with prospectus request form, curriculum and club information, and subject faculty pages.
Lowbrook Primary School - Information about the school, SATs results and examples of children's work.
Cox Green Local History Group - Information about booklets produced by this group, with photographs and contact details.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Cox Green We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Cox Green
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Cox Green "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Cox Green
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cox Green It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Cox Green
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Cox Green 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. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Cox Green
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Cox Green A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Cox Green
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Cox Green The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Cox Green
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Cox Green If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Cox Green
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Cox Green Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Cox Green
"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) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Cox Green If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Cox Green
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Cox Green Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Cox Green
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Cox Green What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Cox Green
