Disabled Living Centre - Providing a range of services to disabled people, older people, and their caregivers: information, contacts, links, supporters.
Home Farm Trust - A national charity based in Bristol for people with learning disabilities.
Bristol Disability Equality Forum - Body which elects 22 advisors to communicate with the city council on local services: contact and meeting details.
Deaf Support Team - City of Bristol College - Sign language and notetaking support for deaf and hearing impaired students in college. Courses and deaf awareness information for students and tutors.
West of England Centre for Integrated Living - Based in Knowle West, WECIL provides services to disabled people in South Gloucestershire, North Somerset or Bath and North East Somerset, who wish to live in the community.
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Disability Resources "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Disability Resources "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Disability Resources
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Disability Resources Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Disability Resources
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Disability Resources "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Disability Resources
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Disability Resources "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Disability Resources
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Disability Resources Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Disability Resources
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Disability Resources
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Disability Resources True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Disability Resources
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Disability Resources To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Disability Resources
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Disability Resources The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Disability Resources
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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. Disability Resources "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Disability Resources
