British Neuropathological Society - Professional association. Aims to further the study of neuropathology. Details of meetings and a mailing list available on site.
Epilepsy Research Group - Professional group involved with clinical and basic scientific research into Epilepsy.
Dementia Care Matters - Work and aims of independent team specialising in working with organisations and their staff in developing Dementia Care Services and Mental Health Services for Older People. Based in Brighton.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Neurology To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Neurology
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "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) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Neurology We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Neurology
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Neurology Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Neurology
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Neurology "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Neurology
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Neurology "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Neurology
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Neurology Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Neurology
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "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) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Neurology Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Neurology
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Neurology Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Neurology
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Neurology "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Neurology
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Neurology Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Neurology
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Neurology "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Neurology
