Meningitis Research Foundation - Information about meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia provided by the charity. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, after effects, scientific research and on support for those who have experienced the disease.
Meningitis Trust - Information on identifying, treating and preventing meningitis, meningococcal septicaemia and meningococcal disease. Also includes details of the charity's research and support services.
The Meningitis Files - The BBC offers a guide to the disease, issues it raises for the health service and the science employed to defeat it.
Spencer Dayman Meningitis Laboratories - Promotes and supports research into the causes and treatment of all strains of meningitis and associated infections; includes information about the condition.
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Meningitis Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Meningitis
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "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) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Meningitis The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Meningitis
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Meningitis I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "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) Meningitis
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Meningitis I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Meningitis
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Meningitis "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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, Meningitis
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Meningitis We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Meningitis
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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Meningitis I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Meningitis
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Meningitis I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Meningitis
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Meningitis "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Meningitis
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Meningitis In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Meningitis
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Meningitis I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Meningitis
