Sir Thomas Boughey High School - Offers education for 11-16 year olds in the local area including Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Includes local history, gallery and contact information.
Audley Publications - Resource for unpublished authors in the local area. Includes book listing and contact information.
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Audley "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Audley
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Audley "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Audley
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Audley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Audley
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Audley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Audley
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Audley Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Audley
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers 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" Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Audley It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Audley
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Audley Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Audley
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Audley 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Audley
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Audley Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn 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 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Audley
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Audley Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Audley
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "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) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Audley "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Audley
