Cambridgeshire Deaf Association - Umbrella organisation of the Deaf in the county. Includes information on clubs, church and sports groups, events, and British Sign Language courses.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Disability Resources There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Disability Resources
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Disability Resources We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Disability Resources
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Disability Resources It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Disability Resources Man and wife make one fool. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Disability Resources
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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) Disability Resources "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Disability Resources
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Disability Resources The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Disability Resources
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Disability Resources "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Disability Resources
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Disability Resources Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Disability Resources
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Disability Resources I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Disability Resources
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Disability Resources Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Disability Resources
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Disability Resources I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Disability Resources
