“There's a thin line between being a hero and being a memory.”
Optimus Prime · Transformers, 2007 film
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt · Autobiography, 1913
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Hippocrates · attributed
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
William Osler · attributed
“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”
Hippocrates · attributed
“The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy, to heal, as it is termed.”
Samuel Hahnemann · Organon of Medicine
“To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.”
Ambroise Paré · attributed
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
William Osler · attributed
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
Sam Keen
“What a wonderful day to be alive, when it's roses, roses all the way.”
L. M. Montgomery
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James
“June is the gateway to summer.”
Jean Hersey · The Shape of a Year, 1967
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.”
James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
Gertrude Jekyll · On Gardening
