Royal College of Anaesthetists - Professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia in the United Kingdom. Sets standards for practice and training, sets and runs examinations, oversees the continued medical education of all practising anaesthetists.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Anaesthesia May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Anaesthesia
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Anaesthesia "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Anaesthesia
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Anaesthesia Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Anaesthesia
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Anaesthesia To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Anaesthesia
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Anaesthesia Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Anaesthesia
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anaesthesia Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Anaesthesia
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Anaesthesia Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Anaesthesia
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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." Anaesthesia "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Anaesthesia
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Anaesthesia "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Anaesthesia
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Anaesthesia I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Anaesthesia
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Anaesthesia Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Anaesthesia
