Johann Martin Usteri quotes

“Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?”
-- Johann Martin Usteri

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

“Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.”

“For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends”

“Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.28

“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

“The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.”

Source : "Lines on a Book Borrowed from the Ship's Doctor". "A. P. H.: His Life and Times". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1970.

“And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want”

“The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.”

“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”