Cowling Primary School - A page for each class, and often a page for each pupil, written by the pupils themselves. Cowling.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Education "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Education
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Education Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Education
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Education
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Education Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Education
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Education After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Education
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Education 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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Education
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Education Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
