Overbury First School - Includes the school's prospectus, latest news, history, and a virtual tour.
The Overbury Web - Community site which includes a village notice board, and links to local businesses and organisations.
Moonlighting - Provides indoor corporate entertainment event activities. Site gives details (with photographs) of the products and services offered.
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Overbury You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Overbury
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "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) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Overbury I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Overbury
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Overbury blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Overbury
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Overbury When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Overbury
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Overbury "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 Overbury
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Overbury Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Overbury
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Overbury There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Overbury
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Overbury Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Overbury
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Overbury "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Overbury
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Overbury Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Overbury
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Overbury If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Overbury
