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- One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
- Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
- My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
- Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
- Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
- The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
- Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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