Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Curt Goetz

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Rajneesh

In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.

George Eliot

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Francoise Sagan

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Pete Fountain

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Marlene Dietrich

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Ron Paul

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

Michael B. Jordan

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

John Wesley

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

John Steinbeck

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Peter Agre

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.