“Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
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André Maurois 202
French writer 1885–1967Related quotes
“Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.”
Source: Father and Sons (1862), Ch. 27.
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
Sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill, it is in fact a slight misquote of "A joke's a very serious thing" from the 1763 poem "The Ghost" by Charles Churchill.
Misattributed
“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Book IV, line 1386
The Ghost (1763)
“There are very few jokes about sociologists.”
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 11
“When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.”
"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" (1970), Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. VII
as quoted by John Hogan, in Quantum Philosophy, Scientific American (July 1992)