Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They're the ones working every moment with the patients to ensure that they do well.

I was a nurse.

For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.