Woodbridge Practice - General practice group providing health care for patients at Thornaby and Ingleby Barwick. Stockton-on-Tees.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Health You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Health
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Health [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Health
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Health The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Health
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Health Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Health
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Health We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Health
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "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." "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Health "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Health "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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.
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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Health
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century 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 "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Health A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Health
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Health Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Health
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Health I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Health
