Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Alice Cooper

Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

Rick Mercer

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

Susanna Kaysen

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

Sophocles

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

John Milton

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

May Sinclair

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

Kim Alexander

She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.

Florence Nightingale

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Robert Frost

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

May Sarton

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

May Sarton

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

Plato

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Mencius

The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.