Physick Quotes & Sayings

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. — Katherine Howe

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable. — John Green

You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?" I gasped. — Robert Thier

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded. — Samuel Johnson

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. — Samuel Johnson

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else. — Vic Fuentes

One does not simply ring Roland.
Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next. — Ilona Andrews

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick. — Thomas Sydenham

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick. — Samuel Johnson

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment. — Fred Rogers

... our 'Physick' and 'Anatomy' have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed. — Thomas Henry Huxley

My present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months. — Susanna Centlivre

Sometimes falling for the enemy is inevitable. — Trinity Sunalee

Louis-Cesare slowly pulled himself into a half-standing position against the side of the winery.'What? Did you think one little mage was going to do me in?' He swallowed hard. 'Hell, that was just a warm-up. — Karen Chance