Eastry C of E Primary School - Includes school history and calendar, plus a selection of pages written by pupils.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "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 Education You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Education
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Education In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Education
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Education
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Education
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Education Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Education That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Education
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Education
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Education "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Education I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Education
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "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) Education The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
