Great Orton Primary School - A small country school, 142 years old, near Carlisle. News, village information, and other school information being made by the Junior children during Computer Club.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Education Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X 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 Education
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Education "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Education To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Education
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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Education One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Education
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Education
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Education
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Education
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Education
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Education If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Education
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
