ACCORD - Catholic Marriage Care Service - Voluntary Catholic organisation, caring for marriage and building relationships. Provide pre-marriage courses, and counselling services. Addresses of all centres provided.
NIdating - Free personal advertisements, and dating advice. Registration required.
Love for Life - Provides details of the relationships and sexuality education project for young people and their carers.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Relationships The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Relationships
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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.
-- Crowf Relationships If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Relationships
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Relationships There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Relationships
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Relationships A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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, Relationships
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Relationships When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Relationships
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 Relationships "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Relationships
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Relationships "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery 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 Relationships
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Relationships Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Relationships
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Relationships We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Relationships
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Relationships Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Relationships
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Relationships Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Relationships
