Spennymoor Learning Town Project - Community initiative to provide local residents with learning opportunities. Includes details of partners, list of courses, locations and costs.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Education We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Education
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Education "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Education
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Education Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Education
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Education It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Education
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Education
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Education There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Education
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Education
