William Osler quote: "Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints."

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first...
WILLIAM OSLER

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable, and must be content with finding broken portio...
WILLIAM OSLER

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's st...
WILLIAM OSLER

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
WILLIAM OSLER

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
WILLIAM OSLER

Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children. One finger in th...
WILLIAM OSLER

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history o...
WILLIAM OSLER

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them...
WILLIAM OSLER

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth...
WILLIAM OSLER

Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his b...
WILLIAM OSLER

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
WILLIAM OSLER

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of child...
WILLIAM OSLER

There is a form that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the ex...
WILLIAM OSLER

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not fro...
WILLIAM OSLER

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and...
WILLIAM OSLER

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
WILLIAM OSLER

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
WILLIAM OSLER

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...
WILLIAM OSLER

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have ...
WILLIAM OSLER

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...
WILLIAM OSLER

Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
WILLIAM OSLER

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.
WILLIAM OSLER

Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr ...
WILLIAM OSLER

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
WILLIAM OSLER

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commerc...
WILLIAM OSLER

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
WILLIAM OSLER

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can o...
WILLIAM OSLER

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not fro...
WILLIAM OSLER

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you ...
WILLIAM OSLER

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
WILLIAM OSLER

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
WILLIAM OSLER

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
WILLIAM OSLER

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty...
WILLIAM OSLER

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books wi...
WILLIAM OSLER

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with...
WILLIAM OSLER

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
WILLIAM OSLER

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
WILLIAM OSLER

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
WILLIAM OSLER

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
WILLIAM OSLER

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important dise...
WILLIAM OSLER

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no...
WILLIAM OSLER

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
WILLIAM OSLER

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
WILLIAM OSLER

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
WILLIAM OSLER

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and eve...
WILLIAM OSLER

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
WILLIAM OSLER

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
WILLIAM OSLER

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth ...
WILLIAM OSLER

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without pa...
WILLIAM OSLER

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
WILLIAM OSLER

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
WILLIAM OSLER

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
WILLIAM OSLER

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to ...
WILLIAM OSLER

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a...
WILLIAM OSLER

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
WILLIAM OSLER

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had -- to this power of settling do...
WILLIAM OSLER

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints...
WILLIAM OSLER

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. . . . Learn to see, learn to hear, lea...
WILLIAM OSLER

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded ...
WILLIAM OSLER

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition....
WILLIAM OSLER

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
WILLIAM OSLER

The future is today.
WILLIAM OSLER

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
WILLIAM OSLER

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so...
WILLIAM OSLER

To die daily, after the manner of St. Paul, ensures the resurrection of a new man, who makes each da...
WILLIAM OSLER

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
WILLIAM OSLER

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
WILLIAM OSLER

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine
WILLIAM OSLER

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them
WILLIAM OSLER

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
WILLIAM OSLER

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
WILLIAM OSLER

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts -- head, heart a...
WILLIAM OSLER

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of child...
WILLIAM OSLER

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
WILLIAM OSLER

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease com...
WILLIAM OSLER

To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life...
WILLIAM OSLER

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
WILLIAM OSLER

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, ...
WILLIAM OSLER

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on ...
WILLIAM OSLER

Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh...
WILLIAM OSLER

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yoursel...
WILLIAM OSLER

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
WILLIAM OSLER

One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.
WILLIAM OSLER

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism
WILLIAM OSLER

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
WILLIAM OSLER

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work ...
WILLIAM OSLER

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experienc...
WILLIAM OSLER

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and th...
WILLIAM OSLER

Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to succe...
WILLIAM OSLER

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooke...
WILLIAM OSLER

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget
WILLIAM OSLER

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: "Live neither in the past nor in the ...
WILLIAM OSLER

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind ...
WILLIAM OSLER

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature seni...
WILLIAM OSLER

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive rec...
WILLIAM OSLER

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterda...
WILLIAM OSLER

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
WILLIAM OSLER

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the mar...
WILLIAM OSLER

Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith.
WILLIAM OSLER

There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice wi...
WILLIAM OSLER

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even...
WILLIAM OSLER

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your ...
WILLIAM OSLER

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery ...
WILLIAM OSLER

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their conte...
WILLIAM OSLER

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
WILLIAM OSLER

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
WILLIAM OSLER

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the g...
WILLIAM OSLER

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with th...
WILLIAM OSLER

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and...
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books w...
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, an...
SIR WILLIAM OSLER

It only takes a small amount of water to get onboard, and it sets up a sort of uncontrollable rockin...
DAVID OSLER

These sorts of ships are famous for having stability problems. We can't rule out anything at this st...
DAVID OSLER

It's a roll-on, roll-off ferry, and there is a big question mark over the stability of this kind of ...
DAVID OSLER

It's a roll-on, roll-off ferry, and there is big question mark over the stability of this kind of sh...
DAVID OSLER

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

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William Osler

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

William Osler

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