William Mayo Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

William James Mayo

#2. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#3. Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William J. Mayo

#4. I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

Al Walser

#5. The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

William J. Mayo

#6. The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

William Dampier

#7. Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

William James Mayo

#8. The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

William James Mayo

#9. It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

Mark Twain

#10. The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

William James Mayo

#11. Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

Federico Fellini

#12. Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

John Arlott

#13. Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many,

Susan May Warren

#14. Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo