Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105 Quote #671 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not...
Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967) Quote #8278 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Discretion is not the better part of biography.
V. S. Pritchett Quote #12540 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world.
Dorothy Parker Quote #5186 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
Voltaire Quote #11253 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Henry David Thoreau Quote #20441 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new...
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism Quote #863 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to...
I Ching Quote #26538 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the...
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. Quote #27881 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Humans always have fear of an unknown situation — this is normal. The important...