ILIACE - Hampshire-based organisation offering residential housing for disabled people.
DISSUK Hants & Rushmoor - Disability information that can help disabled adults and children in Hampshire and Rushmoor. Includes a message board.
Hampshire Association for the Care of the Blind - Provides care and support to people with a visual impairment, using volunteers and a few staff. Information about their services, activities, history, volunteer opportunities, and contact details.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Disability Resources Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Disability Resources
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Disability Resources "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Disability Resources
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Disability Resources A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Disability Resources
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 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Disability Resources "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Disability Resources
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Disability Resources We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Disability Resources Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Disability Resources
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Disability Resources I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Disability Resources
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Disability Resources In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Disability Resources
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Disability Resources With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Disability Resources
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Disability Resources Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Disability Resources
