Berkshire Autistic Society - BAS is a support and action group for the parents and carers of children and adults with autism, autism related problems, Asperger Syndrome or challenging behaviour. Information about the conditions and their activities.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Disability Resources He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Disability Resources
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Disability Resources That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Disability Resources
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Disability Resources Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Disability Resources
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Disability Resources "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Disability Resources
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Disability Resources The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Disability Resources
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Disability Resources This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Disability Resources
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Disability Resources We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Disability Resources
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Disability Resources And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Disability Resources
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Disability Resources Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Disability Resources
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Disability Resources The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Disability Resources
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Disability Resources Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Disability Resources
