Marlborough School - Secondary school of around 1000 pupils. Presently in the process of applying for 'Sports Collage Status'.
Earthworks - Offers people of all abilities, particularly those who are disadvantaged in some way, the opportunity to gain skills in horticulture and conservation. Profile, event calendar, newsletters and information about Friends of Earthworks.
Skyswood School - Junior mixed infants school with about 7 classes, based in the North East of St Albans. Apart from information on the school, the site also has information from the Governors and PTA.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Education
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Education
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Education
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Education We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Education
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Education
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine 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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Education
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Education The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Education
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Education Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Education The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Education
