William Mayo Quotes & Sayings

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. — William James Mayo

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect. — William J. Clinton

Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college. — Michael Sandel

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort. — William James Mayo

The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony. — Thomas Jefferson

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. — William J. Mayo

It is not my way to remain silent when words or actions are needed. Silence serves no one well. Three years ago an angry mob of white people burned twenty homes of my people. Local law enforcement seemed unwilling to help them, so I went to the statehouse and reported the episode directly to Governor Williams. Consequently thirty-six white men were arrested, including the mayor of the town. This is the kind of thing the NAACP strives to do. — Corinda Marsh

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo

Sylvia: Stay right where you are.
The Doctor: You can't come with me.
Wilfred: Well you're not leaving me with her.
Sylvia: Dad!
The Doctor: Fair enough.
Sylvia yelling at the TARDIS: Come back here! Come back here, I said! Come back!
Donna: Are you shouting at thin air?
Sylvia: Yes. Possibly. Yes.
-Doctor Who — Russell T. Davies

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William J. Mayo

I have found that of the Seven Dwarfs, Six are not Happy. — Dennis Cogswell

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it. — Ella Fitzgerald

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer. — William James Mayo

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. — Greg Maddux

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice. — William J. Mayo

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier

I knew I was going bald when it was taking longer and longer to wash my face. — Harry Hill

Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied. — William James Mayo