St Lawrence Primary School - Church of England school for pupils aged 4-10 located in Napton-on-the-Hill near the town.
The Half Crown Petanque Club - News, information, events, roll of honour, photographs, and links. Stockton, Warwickshire.
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Southam I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Southam
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Southam Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Southam
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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" A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Southam Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Southam
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Southam The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Southam
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Southam Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Southam
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Southam He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Southam
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Southam The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Southam
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Southam The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Southam
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Southam Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Southam
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "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 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Southam "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Southam
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Southam Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Southam
