Meare Village Primary School Website - Information about Meare Village Primary School, including latest news, forthcoming events and staff details.
Weare School - Overview of this Church of England First School including newsletters, school map and pictures.
Wedmore Playgroup - Charity run pre-school playgroup for children between 2 and half and 4 years old. Includes timetables, propectus and fees.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "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) Education Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Education
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Education Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Education
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Education
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Education Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Education Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education
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 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Education How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Education
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Education The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education
