St George's Church of England First School - A school in Langton Matravers near Swanage. Details also include information about after school clubs and links to other community sites.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Education Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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 Education
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Education You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Education To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Education We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Education
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "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) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Education I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) My other wife is beautiful. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Education "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Education
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Education
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Education
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Education
