Spennithorne Primary School - Small Church of England primary school in Spennithorne, a few miles south east of Leyburn, North Yorkshire. Included are pages created by the children.
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Education One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education 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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Education "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Education
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Education
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. 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) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Education "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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Education
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Education Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Education
