Quotes by Authors - Page 138

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker
If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.
Henry S. Haskins
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
C.S. Lewis
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough and need career no further. If a man marries on the other hand public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
Rose Macaulay
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
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
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
A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.
Anonymous
Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy Parker
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
G.K. Chesterton
English I remember I remember The house where I was born The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Thomas Hood
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Simone Signoret
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Alexander Chase
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Thomas Fuller
That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said will cause laughter even into the next world.
Marcel Proust
If a man can remember what he worried about last week he has a very good memory.
Anonymous
Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
Michel de Montaigne
I have a remarkable memory I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
Jules Renard
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
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
Charles Dickens
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
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
Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.
H. G. Bohn
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin Pierce Adams
I am in a moment of pretty wellness.
Horace Walpole
Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.
Indra Devi
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
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.
Arnold Lazarus
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Samuel Butler
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
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
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
John L. McClenahan
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Michel de Montaigne
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery in which from time to time he goes to pray a cemetery of bitterness and regret of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.
Rend Leriche
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fisher
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.
Christian Barnard
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
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
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
To cure sometimes to relieve often to comfort always.
Anonymous
The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.
David Kline
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.
Norman Cousins
Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.
Bernie S. Siegel
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf
Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
André Gide
I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn