Bench Partner Quotes

#1. Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#2. I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?

Daniel D. Palmer

#3. Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Italo Calvino

#4. Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. London is the clearing-house of the world.

Joseph Chamberlain

#7. The widespread enthusiasm for reducing government taxes and other impositions is not matched by a comparable enthusiasm for eliminating government programs - except programs that benefit other people. The

Milton Friedman