Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Health Quotes, Medicine Quotes

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.