Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC
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What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773