“ Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. ”
- Sir Samuel Garth- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. ”
- Joyce Brothers- Copy
- 888
“ Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. ”
- Walter Cronkite- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
- 370
“ Weren't any druggies in the band. Anybody who's been on the road any length of time had taken No-Doz or a diet pill to stay awake, but I think that even that was very much at a minimum. ”
- Buck Owens- Copy
- 520
“ Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. ”
- Paracelsus- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 2.4K
“ No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
- 749
“ Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ”
- B. Graham Dienert- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. ”
- Joe E. Lewis- Copy
- 2K
“ For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
- 2K
“ A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs. ”
- Joan Welsh- Copy
- 222
“ Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. ”
- Marcus Brigstocke- Copy
- 286
“ So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all, the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 128
“ You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
- 3K
“ I'm not a big partier. I love when my emotions are real; not a pill that I popped to make me feel something. I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better. ”
- Alyson Hannigan- Copy
- 621
“ Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. ”
- Joseph Sugarman- Copy
- 742
“ Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills… ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery? ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below. ”
- Brigitte Bardot- Copy
- 4K
“ I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife. ”
- Javier Perez De Cuellar- Copy
- 1.7K
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