187 Quotes by William Osler

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

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

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

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

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

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

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

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.