Spellbrook Primary School - Overview, history, prospectus, calendar, fun zone and some samples of work by the children.
Spellbrook Clay Shooting Club - Fixtures, how to join, fees, club rules and general information, news and annual competitions.
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Spellbrook The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Spellbrook
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Spellbrook No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Spellbrook
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Spellbrook Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Spellbrook
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Spellbrook "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Spellbrook
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Spellbrook The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Spellbrook
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Spellbrook "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Spellbrook
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Spellbrook I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) 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 Spellbrook
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Spellbrook To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Spellbrook
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Spellbrook "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Spellbrook
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Spellbrook Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Spellbrook
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Spellbrook A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Spellbrook
