Deacon's School - One of the first 'Beacon' schools. Detailed information on school and its activities.
Orton Wistow Primary School - Situated on the western edge of the city. Details include the curriculum, names of the governing body, extracurricular activities, teacher vacancy notices and a virtual tour.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer May you never leave your marriage alive. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Education 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 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Education Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Education
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Education Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Education
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Education "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Education
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Education It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Education
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Education blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Education
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Education Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "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 Education
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "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) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Education If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Education
