Quotes by American Authors - Page 132

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker
There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.
Joseph Epstein
If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.
Henry S. Haskins
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Helen Rowland
In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an' burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.
H.L. Mencken
Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
Samuel Hoffenstein
When women go wrong men go right after them.
Mae West
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Mason Cooley
I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.
E B White
Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy Parker
All to myself I think of you Think of the things we used to do Think of the things we used to say Think of each happy bygone day Sometimes I sigh and sometimes I smile But I keep each olden golden while All to myself.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Alexander Chase
If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H.L. Mencken
Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.
Edgar Wilson Nye
For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
Rachel Carson
It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
Mark Twain
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.
Donald R. P. Marquis
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Benjamin Franklin
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
I came I saw I concurred.
Irvine H. Page
Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.
Lewis Thomas
The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.
John H. Knowles
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin Pierce Adams
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
Max Lerner
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.
Itzhak Perlman
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.
Arnold Lazarus
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White
Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know but in a much more complicated manner.
Alphonse Raymond Dochez
In my youth once when I had a really exquisite toothache I suddenly realized that my tooth had temporarily become the centre of the universe that its outcries were more important than anything else and that I would do absolutely anything to placate it. And as one gets older and starts worrying about cancer one becomes more and more conscious of the fragility of the whole body and with that consciousness comes a new and degrading kind of fear. It is degrading because it strengthens the desire to survive on any terms and the desire to survive on any terms is the most base of all our instincts.
Otto Friedrich
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.
Samuel Bard
Doctor feel my purse.
Jane Ace
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Those in the United States who by and large have the best medical care and advice readily available to them at the least expense are the families of the specialists in internal medicine. These families use less medicine and undergo less surgery on the whole than any other group rich or poor.
Edward C. Lambert
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.
Bela Schick
A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fisher
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
Abraham Flexner
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.
Jerome Tarshis
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin
The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
Herbert Ratner
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Larry Adler
The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.
David Kline