Crewkerne University of the Third Age - Provides an introduction to this branch of the U3A which organises informal adult further education. Includes programme of interests with contacts.
Perrott Hill School - Boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13.
Wadham Community School - Co-educational Church of England secondary school for students aged 13-18. Includes information for parents and students, history of the school and details of adult education.
Maiden Beech School - Pupil authored site providing reports on recent projects and activities at this middle school.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Education Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
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 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Education I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Education
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Education In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Education
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education 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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 Education
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) 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. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Education
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Education
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Education Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Education
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Education You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Education
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Education He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Education
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Education We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Education
