Richard Asher quotes

“Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.”
-- Richard Asher

Source : Lancet I: 954 (1958)

#Dope Quotes #Drug Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.”
-- Richard Asher

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

#Nurse Quotes #Bed Quotes #Patient Quotes

“For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.”
-- Richard Asher

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

#Doctors Quotes #Careers Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.”
-- Richard Asher

Source : A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

#Recovery Quotes #Surgery Quotes #Discomfort Quotes

“The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.”
-- Richard Asher

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)

#Greek Quotes #Modern Quotes #Describing Quotes

“Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.”
-- Richard Asher

Source : A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

#Sympathy Quotes #Expression Quotes #Smooth Quotes

“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back”

“Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.215, Broadway Books

“If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.”

“All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.”

“But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.”

Source : "So, people, we have a fight on our hands" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

“I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.”

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —”