Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

Creativity never disappoints".

My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.