Silas Weir Mitchell quotes

“Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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“Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

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“He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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“There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

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“Death's but one more to-morrow.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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“Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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“The arctic loneliness of age.”
-- Silas Weir Mitchell

Source : Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine October: 979 - 1005 (1928)

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“They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.”

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“Power is the flower of organization.”

“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.”

“If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.”

“I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!”

“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

“The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.