Hertfordshire Hearing Advisory Service - Offers practical help and advice to people experiencing hearing difficulties. Includes volunteer support, a mobile advisory service, and technical advice. Contact details.
North Hertfordhire Dyslexia Association - Local affiliate of British Dyslexia Association offers advice, support and information to parents of dyslexic children, dyslexic adults and any other interested people. Includes details of their activities and membership.
Action on Disability - A charity working for disabled people and their carers in the county. Profile, objectives, services and information about wheelchair hire.
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Disability Resources The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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-- Abraham Lincoln It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Disability Resources
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Disability Resources Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Disability Resources
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Disability Resources We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Disability Resources
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Disability Resources If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Disability Resources
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Disability Resources Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Disability Resources
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Disability Resources Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Disability Resources
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Disability Resources Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Disability Resources
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Disability Resources "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Disability Resources
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Disability Resources Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Disability Resources
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Disability Resources The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Disability Resources
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Disability Resources Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Disability Resources
