Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Williams

He was proud to tell you that he practiced medicine for 52 years.

Richard Dawkins

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Richard Whately

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Robert Trout

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert M. Fresco

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

Walter Raleigh

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

James Cook

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Robertson Davies

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

William Lilly

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Prince Charles

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Oskar Werner

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

William Shakespeare

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Benjamin Disraeli

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.