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Anon. A neurotic is a man who builds castles in the air; a psychotic is one who tries to live in them, and the psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Andrew Lang 1844-1912 He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts -- for support rather than illumination. Georges Pompidou 1911-1974 There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Anon. The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that we do. Alfred Zauberman The worse the economy, the better the economist.(Zauberman's law) George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 The fact that doctors themselves die of the same diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. W. H. Thompson 1810-1886 We are none of us infallible; not even the youngest of us. |
1854-1900
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Education is a good thing generally, but most folks educate their prejudices.
1879-1940
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.
If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead.
1733-1813
Too much light often blinds gentlemen of this sort. They cannot see the forest for the trees.
When all else fails, read the instructions.