The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951
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The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCSpies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbDo not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922