another of my favorites - 'fake it til you make it!'

"When the going gets tough, the tough run away and cry."

I have a couple of favourites to lighten the load:
"The only way to find out how to do a PhD is to do one. Therefore all advice is useless". I found that one googling 'how to survuve a PhD'
Lewis Carroll had some great advice for Alice in Wonderland "Begin at the beginning and go on until you come to the end; then stop."
Another favourite is atribbuted to Ronald T. Azuma:
"Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy." Cheers, Anna

Been to the 80 th birthday party of my neighbour, his friends had made a summary of this life. Conclusion:
1. a PhD is not hard
2. It is nice to be young and have plenty of opportunities

On the other side there is also a ( I think Dutch) quote:

"For a modell a pickle is like a vulcano!"

1. nobody promised it would be easy, just that it would be worth it

2. the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

One (very cheesy) quote is:

"Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss or don't quite make it, you'll fall among the stars"

My head of sixth form told us that on the last day of school and it hit a nerve,now I carry a card with it written on in my wallet.

Loving all these quotes by the way (esp the 80 year old neighbour putting everything into perspective!).

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Hm, Walrus, I'm guessing it wasn't an astronomy class, given the relative distance of moon and stars from this little ol planet

"postmortems are for the dead" Unknown

"If you want to see a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain" - Dolly Parton

I had a feeling someone might mention that Ozanna! Tiny bit of poetic licence methinks!

Walross, maybe we could change it to the following:

"Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss or don't quite make it, you'll still fall among the highest buildings on earth/skyscrapers"

Having had a baby in my second year I like this:

WHY WRITING A DISSERTATION IS HARDER THAN HAVING A BABY

1. Three months before your due date, your doctor doesn't say, "I want you to
go back and redo the first trimester's work."
2. Unlike advisors, you can switch doctors without starting over.
3. Conceiving a baby is WAY more fun than conceiving a topic.
4. You know exactly how long pregnancy takes.
5. Friends and relatives don't question the worth of a baby.
6. You don't need to explain repeatedly to friends and family what it takes to make a baby and why you're not through yet.
7. Babies don't require proper footnoting or adherence to a style manual.
8. You can freely borrow other people's stuff if you're having a baby; if you're writing a dissertation, that's called plagiarism.
9. No one will complain that your baby is too similar to another one.
10. No matter how much trouble it was doing it, some people will gladly have more than one baby.

That's great!

My favorite is "There are two types of PhD thesis: perfect and submitted".

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence :
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.