Primrose Lane Primary School - Information about the school, prospectus, school calendar, and some children's work.
Boston Spa Comprehensive School - Large, successful secondary school with Sport College status. Information on curriculum, activities, and links with the local community.
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Education
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Education "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Education
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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Education "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Education Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Education You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Education
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Education For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully 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. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Education Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Education
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Education "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Education I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Education
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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Education
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Education Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Education