Albourne C.E.P. School - This primary school describes its activities with prospectus and class pages.
www.albourne.net - Describes the village and its history with map and information about the parish council and the village hall.
Foxglove Cottage Cattery - Describes its facilities and services with directions and information about breeding.
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Albourne "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Albourne
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Albourne Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Albourne
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Albourne If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Albourne
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Albourne You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Albourne
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" 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. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Albourne And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Albourne
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Albourne "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Albourne
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Albourne "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Albourne
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Albourne Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Albourne
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Albourne I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Albourne
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Albourne 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Albourne
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Albourne The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Albourne
