Riverdale Grange Clinic - Information about centre in Sheffield specialising in the treatment of eating disorders.
Eating Disorders Association - National charity. Information about anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Telephone helpline available.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Eating Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Eating
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Eating "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "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 Eating
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Eating If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Eating
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Eating The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Eating
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eating There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Eating
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Eating It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Eating
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Eating The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Eating
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Eating Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Eating
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Eating No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Eating
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Eating I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Eating
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Eating A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Eating
