The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600
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The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborFrom the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871