The Irish Society of Gastroenterology - Aims to provide an educational forum for such scientists and members to present clinical and scientific material.
Fight for Sight - Irish charity promoting eyecare awareness and the prevention of sight loss, with information on eye diseases including AMD, Cataracts, Diabetic Retinophaty and Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Schizophrenia - Information about the organisation and schizophrenia.
One In Four Ireland - A Charity providing support and resources for people who have experienced sexual abuse and violence in Ireland. Services include advocacy,counselling and online support.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Associations Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Associations
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Associations University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Associations
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Associations "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Associations
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Associations "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Associations
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Associations "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Associations
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Associations "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Associations
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Associations I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Associations
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Associations "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "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 Associations
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Associations The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Associations
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Associations To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Associations
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Associations A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Associations
