Frederick Banting famous quotes

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
-- Frederick Banting

#Ideas #Dresses #Suits

Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.
-- Frederick Banting

#Dog #Exercise #Blood

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.
-- Frederick Banting

#Burdens Of Life #Medicine #Physicians

If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.
-- Frederick Banting

#Blood #Tolerance #Sugar

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.