Wessex Autistic Society - Local branch of the National Autistic Society. Information about their education, support and care services for people with autistic spectrum disorders, and their families and carers.
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Disability Resources What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Disability Resources
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Disability Resources In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Disability Resources
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Disability Resources Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Disability Resources "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Disability Resources
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Disability Resources The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Disability Resources
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Disability Resources We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Disability Resources
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Disability Resources A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Disability Resources
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Disability Resources "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Disability Resources
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Disability Resources Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Disability Resources
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Disability Resources The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Disability Resources
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Disability Resources They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Disability Resources
