Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964
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Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCDoctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819