The Phew Scotland Respite Short Breaks Centre - People with learning difficulties, adults and children, stay in a new 14 bedroomed building, purpose built property near Motherwell City Centre.
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Respite Care There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Respite Care
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Respite Care No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Respite Care
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Respite Care "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Respite Care
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Respite Care For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Respite Care
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Respite Care I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 Respite Care
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Respite Care 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 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Respite Care
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Respite Care Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Respite Care
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Respite Care Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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 Respite Care
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Respite Care 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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Respite Care
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Respite Care "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Respite Care
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus 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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Respite Care Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Respite Care
