Perfect Notes Music School - Teaches the keyboard, flute, recorder and music theory in individual or group lessons. (Northampton)
Spratton Hall School - Independent co-educational day school for pupils aged between 3 and 13. Curriculum, facilities, extra-curricular activities, fees. inspection report.
Hardingstone Day Nursery for Chilldren - Providing day care for children aged 3 months to 5 years covering Northampton and the surrounding villages. Includes aims and objectives and access to OFSTED reports.
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education 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 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "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) Education
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Education
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Education No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Education
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Education However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Education
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Education Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Education
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Education "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"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) Education The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Education
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Education
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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Education
