Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.
Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is. . . a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.