Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust - Departments and facilities of the RBH and Battle hospitals in Reading. Information for patients, visitors and potential staff. News, plans, progress, performance and job vacancies.
Mental Health Support in Berkshire - Providing links to local resources, with guides to the mental health support available in the county's main towns.
Berkshire Counselling Service - Consultants providing counselling in stress management, relationships and sexual to individuals and businesses. Information on services and an enquiry form.
Heartbeats - Heart support group for the West Berkshire Health Authority area. News, meetings and class details.
Pulse 8 - Health and fitness club in Sindlesham. Details of facilities and membership.
St John Ambulance - Berkshire - Four core services in Berkshire: social care services, medical services, training and volunteering opportunities.
Berkshire MS Therapy Centre - Designed to improve the quality of life for people in and around Berkshire who have MS.
The Heart Rehabilitation Organisation of Berkshire - Raises funds to provide equipment, to train instructors, to provide exercise programs and to improve quality of life for victims of cardiovascular disease.
Mr Vaughan Tanner - Consultant ophthalmic surgeon. Details of professional training, patient leaflets and contact information.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Health "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Health
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Health A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Health
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Health Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Health
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Health 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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Health
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Health
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Health Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Health
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Health A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Health
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Health Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Health
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Health Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Health
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Health The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Health
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Health If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Health
