Leaf Surgery

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Every disease is a physician. - Irish Proverb

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

The way a doctor writes out a subscription. - Archie Bunker

Better a lucky physician than a learned one. - English Proverb

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. - Martin H. Fischer

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. - August Bier

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things. - Gilbert Gottfried

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. - African Proverb

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. - Mortimer Caplan

When I was born the Doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" - Rodney Dangerfield

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. - James B. Herrick

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. - Martin H. Fischer

I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. - Rodney Dangerfield

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles