Cornwall Road Medical Practice - About the local NHS doctors' surgery, useful information and advice for patients on various health topics.
Joseph Weld Hospice - Hospice, respite and day care centre offering specialist high quality care for patients, their families and friends.
Beltain Centre of Natural Therapy - Describes some of the natural treatments available at the centre, including hypnotherapy and stress management.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Health A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Health
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Health "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Health
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "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) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Health He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Health
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Health Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Health
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Health To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Health
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Health "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Health
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Health His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken 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) Health
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Health Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Health
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Health He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Health
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Health Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Health
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Health "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Health
