Antrobus Riding Club - Horse riding club. Membership, trophy winners, directions, photographs and newsletter.
St Marks School - Church of England primary school. School news, staff listing, SAT results and classwork.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Antrobus "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Antrobus
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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. Antrobus A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Antrobus
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Antrobus This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Antrobus
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Antrobus If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Antrobus
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Antrobus I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Antrobus
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Antrobus Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Antrobus
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Antrobus The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Antrobus
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Antrobus Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Antrobus
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Antrobus I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Antrobus
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Antrobus Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Antrobus
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Antrobus If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Antrobus
