FFaDD Charitable Fund - Raises funds to provide computers for disabled and disadvantaged children in Derbyshire.
Derbyshire Coalition for Inclusive Living - An organization of disabled people, Europe's oldest CIL. Provide a range of services for disabled people in Derbyshire and surrounding counties.
Derbyshire Association for the Blind - Offers a range of services to the visually impaired and blind in the county. Includes useful information, and details of services and volunteer opportunities.
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Disability Resources Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Disability Resources
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Disability Resources An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Disability Resources
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Disability Resources "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Disability Resources
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Disability Resources Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Disability Resources
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Disability Resources Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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 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? Disability Resources
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Disability Resources There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Disability Resources
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Disability Resources "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Disability Resources
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Disability Resources Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Disability Resources
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Disability Resources We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Disability Resources
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Disability Resources "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Disability Resources
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Disability Resources It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Disability Resources
