“Life is short, the art long.”

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.

I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.

You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.

Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can – don’t disappoint him.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.