Scarborough and Ryedale Carers Resource - Organization providing support for people who are non-professional "carers" of an elderly, sick or disabled friend or relative.
Counselling For Life - A women's counselling service in the York and Selby area.
Selby and York Primary Care Trust - NHS organisation giving information about healthcare in North Yorkshire, including links to related web sites.
Personal Assistance Scheme - Empowering the client to sustain the environment in which he or she wishes to live and thereby allowing the client to lead the fullest life possible.
North Yorkshire Family Health Service - Local NHS body. Finance, patient services and a directory of doctors, opticians, pharmacies and dentists in the county.
Robinsons Opticians Ltd - Ophthalmic opticians and contact lens practitioners, with contact details of branches in Pickering and Malton.
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Health The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Health
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Health "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Health
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Health
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 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Health During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Health
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Health The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Health Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Health
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Health Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Health I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Health
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Health Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Health
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Health You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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. Health blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Health
