Charles Mayo Quotes

#1. New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Elaine Stritch

#2. Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing "divine" grace when it's actually just "common."
To me, that's like bickering about what color God's eyes are. (They're hazel, in case you were wondering.)

Cathleen Falsani

#3. Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

Sharon Weil

#4. I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

Michelle Paver

#5. Virtue does not come from wealth, but ... wealth, and every other good thing which men have ... comes from virtue.

Socrates

#6. I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.

Charles Mayo

#7. Martha simply did not know that virtually everything she said was inappropriate, and so there was no point in remonstrating with her.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards ...

Dorothy Osborne

#9. Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

Cate Tiernan

#10. Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

Charles Horace Mayo

#11. There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.

Andreas Deja

#12. Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.

Charles Horace Mayo

#14. It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#15. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

Dean Smith