Autism Greater Manchester - Information about services provided by ten local authorities for people with autism or related disorders, and their families or carers. Includes reports, resources and contact details.
Our Kids' Eyes - Operating in Tameside, an organization which aims to offer support and information to the parents and care takers of children with sight impairment and other disabilities. Includes a newsletter, forum, links and contact details.
Fourways - Offers assessment, rehabilitation and support to people with physical disabilitiies or brain injuries. Includes profile and services with photo gallery.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) 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) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Disability Resources
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Disability Resources When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Disability Resources Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Disability Resources
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Disability Resources To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Disability Resources
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Disability Resources Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Disability Resources
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Disability Resources Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Disability Resources
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Disability Resources "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Disability Resources We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Disability Resources
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Disability Resources I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Disability Resources
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Disability Resources Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources
