Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Quotes
#20 – Osler on Medicine
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.
William Osler
#19 – Switzer on Talking
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer
#18 – Green on Work
As far as I could tell… people with good jobs woke up very early in the morning.
John Green
15 – Russell Baker on School
Life seemed to be an educator’s practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
Russell Baker