Kingham Primary School - Since its establishment in 1870 Kingham C. P. School has been dedicated to the provision of first class education for children between the ages of 5-11. Set in a rural location, it is privileged in having some excellent facilities.
Bishop Loveday C. of E. Primary School - A large primary school of 400 pupils in Bodicote, near Banbury. Contains school information, teacher, governor and parent resources and children's pages containing examples of work.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Primary Schools It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Primary Schools
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Primary Schools Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Primary Schools
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Primary Schools I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Primary Schools
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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide May you never leave your marriage alive. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Primary Schools All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Primary Schools
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Primary Schools All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Primary Schools
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Primary Schools I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Primary Schools
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Primary Schools "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Primary Schools
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Primary Schools I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Primary Schools
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Primary Schools Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Primary Schools
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Primary Schools "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Primary Schools
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Primary Schools I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Primary Schools
