Mcmurrich Monteith Quotes & Sayings

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth. — Marcus Aurelius

Of night crowded into the slanting places beyond the reach of the dawn. — Laini Taylor

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. — William Osler

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country. — Bao Dai

Worldliness proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man's fallen nature; it judges the importance of things by the present and material results; it weighs success by numbers; it covets human esteem and wants no unpopularity; it knows no truth for which it is worth suffering; it declines to be a 'fool for Christ's sake. — Iain Murray

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus. — James Gibbons

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past. — Elizabeth Kostova