Lowick School - Village primary school in Lowick, just south of Coniston Water.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Education When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Education
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford 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 Education
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Education When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Education
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Education 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Education
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Education
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Education "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Education
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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Education Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Education
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Education
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Education I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Education To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education
