Quotes by Physicians - Page 8

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
Havelock Ellis
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith
Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.
Luke
My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.
Herman Boerhaave
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
William James
Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis
Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
William James
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
Lewis Thomas
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The arctic loneliness of age.
S. Weir Mitchell
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
William James
Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
On God for all events depend You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best Leave to your Maker all the rest.
Nathaniel Cotton
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
William James
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbour you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Finally, there are assuredly diversities of gifts pertaining to diverse breeds of men; and unless we are all reduced to the dull dead level of socialism, and perhaps even in that case, for the sake of relief, we shall continue to stand in need of all these gifts. Let us hope, then, that blue eyes, as well as brown eyes, will continue to beam on our descendants, and that heads will never come to be framed all upon one and the same pattern.
John Beddoe
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
Anton Chekhov
We stopped you from going, didn't we? Me and Shiva. Our birth?"Don't be silly. Can you imagine me giving up this?" he said sweeping his hand to indicate family, Missing, the home he'd made out of a bungalow. "I've been blessed. My genius was to know long ago that money alone wouldn't make me happy. Or maybe that's my excuse for not leaving you a huge fortune! I certainly could have made more money if that had been my goal. But one thing I won't have is regrets. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.Of course, you and I have seen countless deaths among the poor. Their only regret surely is being born poor, suffering from birth to death. You know, in the book of Job, Job says to God, 'You should've taken me straight from the womb to the tomb! Why the in-between part, why life, if it was just to suffer?' Something like that. For the poor, death is at least the end of suffering.
Abraham Verghese
when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.
William Osler
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say.
Charles F. Glassman
Where life ends, peace begins!
Debasish Mridha
The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.
Alberto Cairo