Penryn Junior School - General information plus a parent's page, children's page and teacher's page
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Education The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Education I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Education "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Education "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Education There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Education
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? If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Education The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Education
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "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) Education If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Education
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "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) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Education
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Education
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Education Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Education
