Silas Weir Mitchell citations

Silas Weir Mitchell, né le 15 février 1829 à Philadelphie, Pennsylvanie et mort le 4 janvier 1914, est un médecin neurologue et écrivain américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. février 1829 – 4. janvier 1914
Silas Weir Mitchell photo
Silas Weir Mitchell: 6   citations 0   J'aime

Silas Weir Mitchell: Citations en anglais

“The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.”

Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Contexte: Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

“Where did this filthy thing come from?”

While throwing a book on psychoanalysis into a fire; reported in Ernest Penney Earnest, S. Weir Mitchell, Novelist and Physician (1950), p. 180.
Attributed

“I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.”

Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Death’s but one more to-morrow.”

Of one who seemed to have failed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.”

Quoted by Harvey W. Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler http://books.google.com/books?id=Vo01Mhanh64C&q="The+first+thing+to+be+done+by+a+biographer+in+estimating+character+is+to+examine+the+stubs+of+his+victim's+cheque+books"&pg=PA583#v=onepage, Vol. 1, Ch. 21 (1925).

“When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.”

On a Boy's first Reading of "King Henry V", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).

Auteurs similaires

Emily Dickinson photo
Emily Dickinson 8
poétesse américaine
Mark Twain photo
Mark Twain 23
romancier, journaliste et humoriste américain
Charles Darwin photo
Charles Darwin 14
naturaliste anglais
Abraham Lincoln photo
Abraham Lincoln 5
16e président des États-Unis
Wallace Wattles photo
Wallace Wattles 1
écrivain américain
Gustave Le Bon photo
Gustave Le Bon 20
anthropologue, psychologue social, sociologue et scientifiq…
Stuart Merrill photo
Stuart Merrill 2
poète américain francophone
Frederick Winslow Taylor photo
Frederick Winslow Taylor 1
joueur de tennis américain
Alexis de Tocqueville photo
Alexis de Tocqueville 40
philosophe politique, homme politique, historien, précurseu…
Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette photo
Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette 7
homme politique français