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Age Concern England - Information on aging issues, campaigns, annual reports and a list of local chapters. Non-profit.
Civil Service Pensioners' Association - A voluntary body which campaigns on behalf of all pensioners from the civil service and related bodies. Details of membership, services and issues of interest to members.
Cyber Seniors - A group of seniors in East Brighton passing their retirement Internet surfing. Information about their activities, including training, and plans to get computers into sheltered housing.
The Dark Horse Venture - Award scheme initiative for the over 55s. Encourages seniors' participation in four themed skills and lifestyle categories. Scheme information, news and photo gallery.
The Pre-Retirement Association - The PRA works to enable people to manage change from mid-life onwards. Details of courses and advice avaliable, how to join, and latest news.
Elizabeth Finn Trust - Aims to relieve need and distress among British and Irish professional people and their families. Includes difficulties associated with old age, infirmity, disability, social isolation or financial need. Previously known as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association. Detailed information on the Trust including: how to donate; how to benefit; and how to work there
Lesle House 21 Group - Charitable group supporting the elderly residents of Leslie House Eventide Home against forceable closure by the Church of Scotland
Action on Elder Abuse - National organisation aiming to prevent the abuse of older people by raising awareness, education, and research. Details of activities, volunteer programmes, and conferences.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Organisations You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Organisations "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Organisations I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Organisations We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Organisations Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Organisations We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Organisations The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Organisations Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos "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) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Organisations "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Organisations There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Organisations You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Organisations "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Organisations A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Organisations Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Organisations Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 Organisations The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin 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 Organisations Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Organisations A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Organisations "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Organisations "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 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Organisations Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Organisations
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