Wiltshire Blind Association - Registered charity serving those who are blind and partially sighted in the area. Services, newsletter and local resources. Requires Flash.
Workable Wiltshire - Information about organisations that help and advise on employment for disabled people and carers.
Remap Swindon - Volunteers designing and making free technical equipment for disabled people where no commercial alternative exists. Includes examples and membership details.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Disability Resources The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Disability Resources
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Disability Resources "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Disability Resources
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "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) Disability Resources "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Disability Resources
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Disability Resources When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Disability Resources
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Disability Resources When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Disability Resources
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Disability Resources Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Disability Resources
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Disability Resources The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Disability Resources
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Disability Resources Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Disability Resources
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Disability Resources "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Disability Resources
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Disability Resources Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Disability Resources
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Disability Resources He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Disability Resources
