Books Quote by Rose Macaulay

“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families,…

— Anne Lamott

“Everything that is written in books is worth much less than the experience of one physician who reflects and reasons.”

— Rbazes

“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no…

— John Steinbeck

“A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.”

— John Irving

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For…

— Erich Segal

“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”

— sir william osler

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's…

— John Steinbeck

“I was a medic in the Army. I really should have become a doctor. Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole…

— Tom Robbins

“The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”

— Sir William Osler