Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Edward Gibbon

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings.

David Remnick

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Baroness Orczy

even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

David Riesman

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

David Hoffman

With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

Denzel Washington

The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

Deborah King

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

Charles W. Pickering

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

Bill Maher

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

Bernard Marcus

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

William Shakespeare

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

John Heywood

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Charles Lamb

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

Benjamin Franklin

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Dennis McBride

We are trying to get referrals from the physicians themselves,

Daniel D. Palmer

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Ambrose Bierce

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

Plato

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

John Stuart Mill

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings