Wise sayings and such...

Management Consultancy...Anonymous
'A management consultant is someone who tells management what it already knows but packages it differently.'

Litigation...Frank McKinney Hubbard 3
'Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of the lawyers.'

Like the second! Very true!

Prince Phillip

When a man opens the car door for his wife, its either a new car or a new wife.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury

More Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train

I can resist everything except temptation

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable

All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man does, that's his (Oscar Wilde)

Be curious
Not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

George W Bush - not known for his wise words, once said the following:
"The trouble with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'"
Those of us who live in France and who are at the mercy of French artisans, will accept the bizarre wisdom of that statement.

phoenix on both posts!

Some years ago I met a wonderful retired Colonel, who told me of another phrase, unfortunately I no longer have the Latin version (things always sound so erudite in Latin) but it translated as :

"When you have them by the balls, their hearts and mind will follow"

Wicked woman phoenix but so true!

The spelling may not be right, but my personal motto is "Semper nen faecebes, sole profundum variat"

Love that one, absent!

When one door closes, another one shuts.
Absentfather

Diplomacy...David Frost

'Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.'

purple that's one of my favourites too.

I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand

This was often repeated to us when I was a student teacher in training and it made a great impression on me. I've used and applied it to various situations ever since - when teaching all ages ranging from infants to adults, and now when interacting with 3 year old GD. I may not always have said it out loud but it's application and use has always worked.

People...Sir David Nicholson

'There are three sorts of people in this world; those who make things happen, those who watch things happening, and those who don't know what is happening.'

and George Burns...

'Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are too busy driving taxi-cabs or cutting hair.'

Philosophy...William shakespeare

'There was never yet a philosopher that could endure toothache patiently.'

specki ((hugs))

absent

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King

There's a lot of good done in this world if you don't mind who gets the credit.

Those that mind don't matter; those that matter don't mind. (very useful for numerous situations!!

"There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." (Hamlet)

The only way to get something done is to DO it. (my mantra to students whinging about how much homework they had to do.)

specki!

Apt words have power to 'swage
The tumours of a troubled mind,
And are as balm to festered wounds. MILTON

How true this is for me this week.

if i were a butterfly, life would be a farce, i would climb upon the shrubs and trees, and slide down on my hands and knees