Diabetes Research Laboratories - Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. Main interests are complications of diabetes, genetics and therapeutic trials.
Diabetes Trials Unit - At University of Oxford. Information about prevention and intervention studies.
Society for Endocrinology - Professional society for those working in an endocrine-related field. Abstracts and full texts of some Journal articles available online.
British Society For Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes - Information leaflets about various endocrine (gland) disorders in children: adrenal hypoplasia, hypothyroidism, Marfan's, diabetes insipidus, Turners, Klinefelters, obesity, precocious puberty and others.
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Endocrinology Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Endocrinology
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Endocrinology I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Endocrinology
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Endocrinology Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Endocrinology
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Endocrinology "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Endocrinology
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Endocrinology A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Endocrinology
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Endocrinology "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Endocrinology
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Endocrinology The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Endocrinology
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Endocrinology I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Endocrinology
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Endocrinology "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Endocrinology
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Endocrinology "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Endocrinology
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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Endocrinology Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Endocrinology
