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  • There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

    Believe   Health   Men  
    Journal Intime 6 February (1877)
  • To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

    Angel   Men   Safety  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.
  • I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

    Death   Morning   Men  
    Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.206, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

    Sleep   Eye   Men  
    Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press
  • All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.

    Men   Sick   Mind  
    Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”
  • The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

    Taken   Men   Order  
    Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.191, Univ of California Press
  • A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

    Hate   Men   Sick  
  • God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled.

    Men   Sick   Funeral  
    Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.88, Omnibus Press
  • You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

    Men   Thinking   Sick  
    Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

    Men   Sick   Making Love  
  • Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

    Men   Doctors   Medicine  
    Fables (Series 1), Fable 27
  • The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  • If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

    Men   Thinking   Sick  
    Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.364, Oxford Paperbacks
  • It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

    Kindness   Men   Medicine  
    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

    Men   Sick   Modest  
    Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.71, Penguin
  • For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

    Men   Feet   Sick  
  • A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

  • Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of that one sick man, and it's up to me and a half-mexican to stop him.

    Sex   Animal   Men  
  • A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

    Men   Sick   Erotic  
    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
  • Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

    Jesus   Men   Sick  
    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.21, St Athanasius Press
  • When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

    Faith   Men   Sick  
  • I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

    Men   Sick   Ease  
    Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition
  • I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

    Hurt   Men   Thinking  
  • The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

    Love   Life   Strong  
  • I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.

    Men   Doctors   Boston  
  • Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

    Inspiring   Men   Blood  
  • It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

    Sleep   Night   Men  
  • I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

    Moving   Science   Men  
  • Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

    Nature   World   Earth  
    Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”
  • I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

    Men   Sick   Spiteful  
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