The Space Centre - One of the largest multi-sensory rooms in the UK. It consists of a large, soft padded multi-sensory environment on 2 levels connected by stairs and a slide. Lists a noticeboard and general details.
Huntingtons Disease Association - Lists general information, branch meetings, local and national contacts, young carers, photographs and diary dates.
Lancashire Combined Fire Authority - Offers a range of information on recruitment, community fire safety, area coverage maps, news, contacts, and related links.
Friends of Chernobyl's Children - An ecumenical group working to help disadvantaged children who are suffering from the aftermath of the chernobyl accident. Sponsor a child or become a host family.
Healthcare NHS Trust - Health service, lists hospitals, projects, trusts merger and contact details.
Gentle Approach to Cancer Association - Cancer support group based in Preston and Blackpool. Advice and support for cancer patients and their supporters, plus a range of complementary therapies. All free of charge.
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Health "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Health
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Health Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "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) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Health
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Health I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Health
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Health
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Health For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Health
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Health A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Health
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Health Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Health
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Health People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Health
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Health Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Health
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Health "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Health "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Health
