It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all