Fibromyalgia Association UK - National charity seeking to raise awareness of the condition. Offers information on diagnosis and therapies for sufferers and professionals, their activities, conferences, and their helpline.
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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Fibromyalgia My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Fibromyalgia
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fibromyalgia When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Fibromyalgia
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Fibromyalgia Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Fibromyalgia
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Fibromyalgia Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 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 Fibromyalgia
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Fibromyalgia "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Fibromyalgia
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Fibromyalgia "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Fibromyalgia
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Fibromyalgia There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Fibromyalgia
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Fibromyalgia A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Fibromyalgia
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Fibromyalgia The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Fibromyalgia
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Fibromyalgia "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Fibromyalgia
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Fibromyalgia "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Fibromyalgia
