Med School Guide UK Forum - Discussion for UK medical students and applicants to UK medical schools.
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Education I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Education Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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. Education
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Education "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Education
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Education "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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Education
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Education A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Education
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Education The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Education
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Education "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Education
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Education
