Crazies Hill C of E Primary School - A local village school serving the South Oxfordshire and North Berkshire area. Located two miles North of Wargrave.
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "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) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Wargrave Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Wargrave
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Wargrave "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Wargrave
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Wargrave Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Wargrave
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Wargrave Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Wargrave
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Wargrave Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Wargrave
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wargrave Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wargrave
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Wargrave Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Wargrave
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Wargrave "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "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) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Wargrave
"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) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Wargrave Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Wargrave
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Wargrave I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wargrave
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wargrave "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Wargrave
