Meddra Quotes & Sayings

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. — Julian Barnes

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. — Seneca The Younger

We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present. — T. J. Jackson Lears

Write, write, write — Shaun Herbert

You weren't born by yourself. — Henri Cole

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does. — W. H. Auden

A Man lives off his head.
His head won't see him through.
Inspect your own
What lives on that?
At most, a louse or two ... — Bertolt Brecht

The bridges were quite popular as building sites,because they had a very convenient sewage system and, of course, a source of fresh water. — Terry Pratchett

The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth. — Konrad Lorenz

I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini. — Luisa Tetrazzini

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way ... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. — Edie Sedgwick