Quotes to inspire and reflect

Teach yourself and you have a fool for a master.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become president of a great nation.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Journalists are like dogs, whenever anything moves they begin to bark.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Going to trial with a lawyer who views your whole life as a crime in progress is not a happy prospect.

Never take less than a guinea for doing anything, nor less than half a one for doing nothing. Among lawyers, moderation would be infamy.

The reason we can’t have the 10 commandments in a courthouse? You cannot post “Thou shall not steal”, “Thou shall not commit adultery”, and “Thou shall not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Law and justice are not always the same.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.