National Asthma Campaign - Kids' Zone - Includes news, facts and magazine articles, alongside games, ecards and a message board. Also includes a section for teachers.
Children First and Always - Information about general health, and staying in hospital, aimed at various ages. Written by GOSH Trust.
General Practice Notebook - Paediatric - Clinical reference guide, aimed at health care professionals. Includes paediatrics by system, diseases and conditions, and emergencies.
Children's Health - Information on a range of common illnesses. Includes features on meningitis, pain relief, and dealing with emergencies.
ChildHealthMonitor.org (CHM) - Information on the latest research from medical journals, translated into everyday language. [Paid subscription required for the majority of articles.]
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Children A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Children
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Children Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Children
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Children When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Children
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Children "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Children
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Children "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 Children
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Children I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Children
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Children The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Children In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Children
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Children
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Children Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Children
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Children I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Children
