Wiserafter90

"The worst disease in the world is the plague of vengeance." Karl Menninger. "A bore is one who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." Giovanni V. Gravina. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." Charles M. Schultz.

"Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable & bear the intolerable." Kathleen Norris. "Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them." W. Irving.

"Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by discontent or indifference." Jane Austen. "There's nothing like coming home to a loved one and hearing them meow." Anon.

"The people can never understand why the President doesn't use his supposedly great power to make 'en behave. Well all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing & kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." Harry Truman.

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." Erma Bombeck. "Love, true love, is that which can give the most without asking or demanding anything in return." Mazie Hammond. "What I love most about life is who I share it with." Anon.

"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." Pearl Bailey. "It is not the one who has too little but the one who always craves more who is poor." Seneca the Younger.

"To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved." Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to sun makes ice melt, kindness causes it to evaporate." Albert Schweitzer.

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant. "There only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age." Benjamin Spock.

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." George Washington Burnap. "Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs." H. G. Bohn.

"Give me: Eyes that see the source of ill; Hands with the touch that heals; Ears that hear the cry of pain; A voice that comforts a heart that fears." Anon. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss (Theodore S. Geisel).

Anne Fanshawe.

"Glory be to God, we never had but one mind throughout our lives. Our souls were wrapped up in each other's, our aims & designs one, our loves one, & our resentment one. We so studied one the other, that we knew each other's mind by our looks. Whatever was real happiness God gave it to me in him."

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." Ronald Dahl. "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." May Sarton. "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." Will Rogers.

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think cannot." Eleanor Roosevelt. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." J.R.R.Tolkein.

"The body consists of three parts-the brainium, the borax, and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five-a, e, I, o, and u." Student logic. No more, I promise.

I can't get inside the mind of another persons logic, but clearly there is a great deal of mangled information. I can't understand it but I am comfortable being amused by it.

"Nothing grieves a student more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he was not required to learn." Wiserafter90. "The best classroom in the world is at the feet of am elderly person." Andy Rooney.

More student logic: The Magna Carta provided that no free men should be hanged twice for the same offense. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Blood flows down one leg & back the other.

Valve surgery successful - home tomorrow!

Morning of surgery - time to hear students explain things. For asphyxiation: Apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead. For head cold: Use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat. Nosebleed: Put the nose much lower than the body until the heart stops.

for centuries." Christopher Morley.

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way. You can blow a man up with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take 20 years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding

"There was a little lawyer man/ Who gently smiled as he began/ Her dear, dead husband's will to scan./ And thinking of his coming fee,/ He said to her quite tenderly,/ 'You have a nice, fat legacy.'/ Next morning as he lay in bed/ with bandages on his broken head/ He wondered what it was he said."

Simon Newcombe, astronomer.

"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, forms of machinery, & forms of force can be united in a practical machine by which man will fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for demonstration of any physical fact to be." (1903)

My surgery is Wednesday - I am very thankful these days it is only uncomfortable.

"The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it today. 'Knife' & 'pain' are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient. To this compulsory combination we shall have to adjust ourselves." Dr. Alfred Velpau (1839).

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." Elisabeth Kuhler-Ross. "I'm not saying parenthood is hard, I'm just saying I was better at it before I had kids."

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die." Max Planck. "The...problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are so certain of themselves & wiser people so full of doubt." Bertrand Russell.

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food & water & shelter & affection, they will think you are God... owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food & water & shelter & affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods." Chris Hichens.