Community and District Nursing Association - Professional organisation and registered trade union for community and district nurses. Includes membership information, press releases, selected journal articles, and events.
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Community and District Nursing Association Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Community and District Nursing Association
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Community and District Nursing Association In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Community and District Nursing Association
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Community and District Nursing Association You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi May you never leave your marriage alive. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Community and District Nursing Association
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Community and District Nursing Association Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Community and District Nursing Association
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Community and District Nursing Association Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Community and District Nursing Association
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Community and District Nursing Association In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Community and District Nursing Association
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Community and District Nursing Association I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Community and District Nursing Association
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Community and District Nursing Association The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Community and District Nursing Association
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Community and District Nursing Association The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Community and District Nursing Association
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Community and District Nursing Association A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Community and District Nursing Association
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Community and District Nursing Association Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Community and District Nursing Association
