Saturday, May 02, 2009

Previously in favourite quotations (7)

If there ever was an unnecessary tense it was the French subjunctive - Kate Atkinson


Happiness is nothing more than good health & a bad memory - Albert Schweitzer


Sometimes you just want a classic weblog that features whatever was on the writer's mind at the time -Michael Moran


It should never be forgotten that 94 per cent of Royal Bank of Scotland's shareholders voted in favour of Sir Fred Goodwin's catastrophic purchase of ABNAmro, a transaction now universally derided as the height of folly - Patrick Hosking


A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost


Children should not be sitting in classrooms of 30 learning the same stuff at the same time - Terry Deary


No one is really interesting until To love him has become no longer easy - Vernon Scannell


Everyone makes mistakes, but some people know what to do with them – Steven Poole


Every advance in knowledge increases complexity & uncertainty & hence effective ignorance. That is the paradox of science – Ziauddin Sardar


Be careful when reading health advice or you might die of a misprint – Mark Twain


Surely it is important for doctors to be challenged to think rather than merely encouraged to learn – Des Spence






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