I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Medical Specialties Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Medical Specialties
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Medical Specialties He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Medical Specialties
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Medical Specialties The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Medical Specialties
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Medical Specialties I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Medical Specialties
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Medical Specialties "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Medical Specialties
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Medical Specialties Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Medical Specialties
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Medical Specialties A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Medical Specialties A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Medical Specialties
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Medical Specialties We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Medical Specialties We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Medical Specialties
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Medical Specialties Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Medical Specialties
