North of England Ophthalmological Society - Professional society covering the northern counties of England and North Wales. Holds three meetings a year. Awards prizes for the best paper and poster of the year.
DBCG - Information about services offered to assist patients with common eye diseases.
Specialist Ophthalmology Services - Information about consultations and services offered by a group of five teaching (university) hospital consultant eye surgeons.
Making a Visible Difference - Information about a professional partnership aiming to improve the treatment of patients with eye problems particularly glaucoma.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Ophthalmology "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Ophthalmology
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Ophthalmology He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Ophthalmology We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Ophthalmology
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Ophthalmology "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Ophthalmology
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Ophthalmology The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ophthalmology
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Ophthalmology Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Ophthalmology
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Ophthalmology Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Ophthalmology
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Ophthalmology Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ophthalmology
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Ophthalmology "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Ophthalmology
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Ophthalmology If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Ophthalmology
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ophthalmology Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Ophthalmology
