Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a... teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight)... Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man with lantern: Who are you? Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted ha...rbor. Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come. Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog? Man with lantern: Sure, we've got gold, fountains of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health care... debate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Macbeth. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,... Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Doctor. Therein the patient Must minister to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquet by giving... him away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand That lay impounding the Pacific swell,... Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An aspiring genius was D. Green: The son of a farmer, age fourteen;... His body was long and lank and lean-- Just right for flying, as will be seen;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »