Dorset Aerial Views: Stour Provost - Description of the village with references to its history and parish. Includes details of St Michael's church, Manor Farm, Diamond House and the main street.
Stower Vale Pre-School - For children aged two and a half years to school age. Includes details of activities.
Stower Provost Community School - Primary school for children aged 5 to 11 years. Overview of aims and policies with statistics of pupils' attainment at Key Stages 1 and 2.
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Stour Provost Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Stour Provost
May you never leave your marriage alive. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Stour Provost Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Stour Provost
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Stour Provost The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Stour Provost
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "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) Stour Provost It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Stour Provost
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Stour Provost I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Stour Provost
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Stour Provost "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Stour Provost
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Stour Provost There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Stour Provost
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Stour Provost "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "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) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Stour Provost
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Stour Provost "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Stour Provost
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Stour Provost "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Stour Provost
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "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 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Stour Provost The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Stour Provost
