Vista - Offer services and support to the blind and visually impaired in Leicestershire and Rutland. Information about their actvivities, events, newsletter, and staff.
Leicestershire Down's Syndrome Group - Information about the support and advice network offered by this parents' group. Includes details of resources and services available to families affected by Downs Syndrome.
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Disability Resources I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Disability Resources
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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Disability Resources "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Disability Resources
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Disability Resources Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Disability Resources
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Disability Resources I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Disability Resources
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 Disability Resources Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Disability Resources
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford 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 it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Disability Resources
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Disability Resources I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Disability Resources
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Disability Resources If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Disability Resources
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Disability Resources In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Disability Resources
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Disability Resources "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Disability Resources
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Disability Resources To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Disability Resources
