“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“No more thy pains for others' welfare spend, Nor think by service to attach a friend: All are ungrateful - love goes slighted still - Nor merely so, but is repaid by ill; Witness myself, house bitterest foe is he, Who never had a friend on earth bu”
Catullus
“You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.”
Barry Long
“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”
Seneca
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Hall, the landlubber... unknowingly did something that no sailor would ever do. He renamed his vessel, a sure sign of bad luck to come.”
Richard Parry
“This is an unknowable question, ... All we can do in medicine is to infer.”
David Grimes
