Killinghall CE School - Introduction to the school, term dates and photographs. [Requires Java]
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Killinghall Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Killinghall
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Killinghall Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Killinghall
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Killinghall I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Killinghall
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 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Killinghall A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Killinghall
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown May you never leave your marriage alive. Killinghall Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Killinghall
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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 Killinghall Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Killinghall
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Killinghall Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon 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 Killinghall
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Killinghall The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "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 Killinghall
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Killinghall "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Killinghall
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Killinghall The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Killinghall
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "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 Killinghall Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Killinghall
