Axel Munthe Quotes

#1. I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Nell Blaine

#2. Norstrom always used to say that I had two
different brains working alternatively in my head:
the well developed brain of a fool and the un-
developed brain of a sort of genius.

Axel Munthe

#3. You cannot be a good doctor without pity.

Axel Munthe

#4. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Axel Munthe

#6. What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Axel Munthe

#7. I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

Cheech Marin

#8. A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

Axel Munthe

#9. Raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off.

Orson Scott Card

#10. The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Axel Munthe

#11. Insanity is nothing more than a curse.

Shelby Chunn

#12. Everybody likes Anders. But if Vogel

Ann Patchett

#13. Leaders: Captains of industry.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

Axel Munthe

#15. Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.

Anistatia R. Miller

#16. The soul needs more space than the body.

Axel Munthe

#17. Isn't it funny how we all will end up? Best friends today, communicating via internet tomorrow. Crush today, dancing at their weddings tomorrow.

Manasa Rao

#18. Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Oswald Chambers

#19. My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!

Axel Munthe

#20. When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

Origen

#21. Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right

Arthur W. Pink

#22. To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.

Axel Munthe