Mexborough Highwoods Primary School - Accepts children from 4-11 years. Prospectus, diary of events, newsletters, school team information and examples of pupil's work.
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Mexborough Comprehensive School - Secondary school and sixth form for pupils aged 11-18. Profile, history, news and photo gallery.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) >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 Education "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Education
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Education Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Education
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Education What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Education If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Education He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Education
