British Society For Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes - Professional society promoting education and research in pediatric endocrinology. Membership is open to clinicians actively engaged in the care of children with endocrine disorders and researchers.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Paediatrics Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Paediatrics
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Paediatrics He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Paediatrics
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paediatrics "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Paediatrics
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Paediatrics "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Paediatrics
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Paediatrics While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "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 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Paediatrics
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Paediatrics Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Paediatrics
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Paediatrics This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Paediatrics
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Paediatrics There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Paediatrics
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Paediatrics He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Paediatrics
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Paediatrics "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Paediatrics
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Paediatrics If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Paediatrics
