The Bucks' Eleven Plus Site - Providing information on the 11+ examination system in Buckinghamshire. Details on how the system and exams work, some test papers both free and for sale, a forum and mail contact.
The Advice Network, Buckinghamshire - A UK-government sponsored initiative offering information, advice and guidance on learning and work to adults in Buckinghamshire. Details of services and courses available plus means of contact.
The Learning County - An initiative sponsored by Buckinghamshire Lifelong Learning Partnership aiming to improve the quality of life by making lifelong learning attractive, accessible and relevant to everyone in Buckinghamshire.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Education
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Education
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Education
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Education
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Education Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Education
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Education This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Education
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Education Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Education I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Education
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Education A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Education
