(1056 quotes found)
“A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I just knew if I was patient and confident that I'd reach the part of the course that I could work a little better, catch the speed on him. Then coming into that one turn, I dove the inside line on him like clockwork. That's how it worked out.”
Seth Wescott
“Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. [The analyst] keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.”
Janet Malcolm
“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.”
Mark Twain
“Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example”
Phaedrus
“It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient”
George Eliot
“When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike”
Arabian Proverb
“The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;/ Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,/ And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
Wilfred Owen
“I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.”
Ronald Ross
