Pietro Metastasio Quotes

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.

Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.