Co.deaf (County Durham Equal Access Forum) - Promotes equality of access for all people in the county with different types of hearing loss. Information on their activities, with listings of clubs and centres, events, and contacts
East Durham Deafened and Hearing Impaired Support - Promotes the relief, integration, rehabilitation, welfare and education of people who have acquired hearing loss. Details of membership, events, location and staff.
Behcet's Durham - Information about a woman that suffers from Behcet's Disease. Includes information on condition and her awareness raising campaign. Lives in Pity Me.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Disability Resources Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Disability Resources
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Disability Resources Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Disability Resources
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Disability Resources Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Disability Resources
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Disability Resources 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 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Disability Resources
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Disability Resources "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Disability Resources
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Disability Resources Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Disability Resources "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Disability Resources
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Disability Resources
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Disability Resources Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Disability Resources
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may 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 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Disability Resources
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Disability Resources "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Disability Resources
