Montgomery Community Health Council - Created by Parliament to provide independent help and advice for users of the health service: Includes surveys, link directory, and the Pulse newsletter.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Health Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Health
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Health If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Health
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Health
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Health "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman 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 Health
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Health We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Health
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Health Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Health
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Health "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Health
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Health Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Health
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Health "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Health
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Health Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Health
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Health Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Health
