Nurse Minerva - Biological concepts in the context of nursing and health care.
Primary Care Development - Setting up a Triage System and Nurse led Minor Illness Clinic in General Practice.
M&K Update - Providers of clinical training courses for nurses and suppliers of medical books and medical equipment.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Education They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Education
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Education Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Education
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Education We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Education Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Education
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Education
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Education The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Education
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Education "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Education Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Education
