When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.