Nostrum Quotes

#1. The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars.

Nina Mason

#3. Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#4. The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#5. Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Leslie Fiedler

#6. Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.

Deepak Chopra

#7. I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

Mona Simpson

#8. Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke

#9. He invited me to dinner Thursday night," Rusty said. "I'm going to have to go to his house."
"I don't think he invited you to dinner," Delilah said. "I think he invited you because you are dinner.

Penelope Rivers

#10. Definitely the road to the championship gets much easier when those type of guys are eliminated early.

Denny Hamlin

#11. Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

Yaya Toure

#12. Some people are mean, and when you look at their page, they only write mean things, but I have a great time with a twitter person. It's not even to promote myself, just to entertain me.

Kathleen Madigan

#13. Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

Ron Fournier

#14. We believe that only government has the capacity
not to mention the political and moral responsibility
to promote the general welfare.
Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

Janet Poppendieck

#15. It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.

Serena Williams

#16. Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Adolphe Thiers

#17. He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

Robert A. Heinlein