All Saints CE Primary School - A voluntary aided co-educational school for pupils aged 5-11 years. Includes pages on the pupils work and the school projects.
Old Throstles Network - Information for students, teachers and alumni of West Bromwich Grammar School.
Newtown Primary School - Online prospectus with information about admissions, policies and procedures, school life, and clubs.
Menzies High School - Includes news and events, sixth-form prospectus (PDF download), and list of governers.
Old Throstles Association - For former pupils and ex-staff of the West Bromwich Grammar School, now renamed to the Menzies High School. Includes guest tour, members area, and registration form.
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-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Education
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. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Education The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Anyway, 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,
ign In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Education
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Education Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
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-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Education
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Education I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "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) Education
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Education "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Education
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "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 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Education
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Education He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Education It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Education
