Bishopgate Medical Centre - Details about this general practice surgery includes how to make appointments, order repeat prescriptions and useful contact numbers.
Auckland Hospital Radio - Voluntary organization broadcasting to patients, staff and visitors . Includes a facility to listen live, studio cam, technical resources, contacts and location.
St Peter's - Anglican Church. Details of services, mid-week activities and link with Stan Laurel.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Bishop Auckland All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Bishop Auckland
"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) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Bishop Auckland The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Bishop Auckland
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Bishop Auckland Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Bishop Auckland
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bishop Auckland My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Bishop Auckland
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Bishop Auckland Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bishop Auckland
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Bishop Auckland You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Bishop Auckland
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Bishop Auckland blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Bishop Auckland
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Bishop Auckland The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Bishop Auckland
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Bishop Auckland Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Bishop Auckland
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Bishop Auckland 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Bishop Auckland
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "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." Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Bishop Auckland They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Bishop Auckland
