Leaf Surgery

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. - Arabic proverb

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. - Walt Whitman

Traveling leaves you speechless and turns you into a storyteller. - Ibn Battuta

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - Ruth E. Renkel

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

The practice of medicine is a thinker's job, the practice of surgery a plumber's. - Martin H. Fischer

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. - Edgar Watson Howe

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. - Dag Hammarskjold

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles

A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

My physician has become warden of my medically imprisoned body, pharmaceuticals the bars on my cell. - Grey E. Livingston

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. - Walter Matthau

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. - Bob Hope

My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. - Milton Berle

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. - Norman Cousins

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle