It Has Been Said

IT HAS BEEN SAID and collected by MICHAEL UHRIN* "We do not remember days, we remember moments." — Pavese "Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency." —Epicurus "Physicians, having mistaken the cure, are not mistaken to consult someone else who can help them carry the coffin. They share the weight and the sorrow, for misfortune borne alone is doubly intolerable." — Balthazar Gracian "Our passions polish and perfect every new object of our affection." —Michael Uhrin "Death will find you, but you have to find love."—August Wilson "Each pathogen is a law unto itself." —Brigette Askonas "Elegant is the man who neither does not says any old thing, but instead does what should be done and says what should be said." — Ortega y Gasset "The survivors are not the best but the most cunning." — Metchnikov "The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm." — Anon. "He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath an office of honor and profit." —Benjamin Franklin ' 'All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. ' ' —Ralph Waldo Emerson "The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it." — Carlo Goldoni "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."—William Wadsworth "Without bread, without wine, love is nothing." —French Proverb *Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Hospital , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. 66 Michael Uhrin ¦ It Has Been Said "The man who enjoys what he is working at never needs to be concerned about this illusory phantom called luck; in his heart of hearts he knows he is a lucky man. ' ' — Michael Uhrin "To turn sorrows into pleasures is to know how to live." —Balthazar Gracian "People of small caliber are always carping." —Van Wyck Brooks "There is no greater lie than a truth misunderstood." —WilliamJames "If there's no money in poetry, neither is their poetry in money. — Robert Graves "Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever." —David Hume Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 40, 1 ¦ Autumn 1996 | 67 ...