Paull Parish Council - Village information about the school, Councillors, Annual Report, Fort Paull, the War Memorial, history, photographs (including an aerial photograph) and annual report.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Government An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Government
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Government "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Government
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Government Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Government
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 Government The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Government
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Government The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Government
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Government "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) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Government
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Government You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Government
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Government "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Government
"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) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Government The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Government
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Government
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Government The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Government
