College of Integrated Chinese Medicine - Diploma courses in acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, based on traditional theory. Certified by B Ac C and RCHM.
College of Traditional Acupuncture - Offers a 3 year course affiliated to Oxford Brookes University. Based on classical theory, leading to British Acupuncture Council registration
International College of Oriental Medicine - Full time course in acupuncture and related techniques. Based mainly on classical Chinese theory. Located in East Grinstead, Sussex.
School of Five Element Acupuncture - Located in London, this course leads to British Acupuncture Council membership. Strong emphasis on classical 5 Element theory
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Training "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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Training
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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Training "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Training
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Training A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Training
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Training If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Training
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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Training It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Training
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Training 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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Training
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Training The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Training
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Training "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Training
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Training You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Training
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Training Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Training
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Training After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Training
