SeeAbility - Works with adults who are visually impaired and have other disabilities (eg learning disability, physical disability, head injury , mental health difficulties ) to explore their potential, develop skills/independence and enhance the quality of their lives.
South East Surrey Dyslexia Association - Local affiliate of the British Dyslexia Association offers information, and details of their events and activities.
The National Autistic Society (Surrey Branch) - Information about local activities and events. Includes substantial listings of national and international resources, covering autism and its diagnosis, therapies, education, support, and the benefits system.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Disability Resources If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Disability Resources
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Disability Resources The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. Disability Resources
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Disability Resources Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Disability Resources
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Disability Resources Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Disability Resources
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Disability Resources Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Disability Resources
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Disability Resources
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Disability Resources
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Disability Resources If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Disability Resources
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Disability Resources If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Disability Resources
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Disability Resources A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Disability Resources I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Disability Resources
