Grange Over Sands Primary School - C E Primary School with 184 pupils on roll and a further 21 part time pupils in the nursery. The school caters for children aged 3 to 11. Class information, news, and photos.
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Education
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Education
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Education Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Education
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Education "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Education
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Education I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Education
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Education Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
