Quote

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

William Osler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
Physician
Professor
Sir William Osler
Sir William
WO
Age
Sixty
Political
Commercial
Matter
Benefit
Work
Stopped
Years
Professional
Would
Benefits
Men
Courses
Uselessness
Life
Course
Incalculable

More quotes by William Osler

Image
Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
William Osler
Image
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler
Image
No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
William Osler
Image
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
William Osler
Image
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
William Osler
Image
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler
Image
Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
William Osler
Image
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
William Osler
Image
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
William Osler
Image
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler
Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
William Osler
Image
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler
Image
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
Image
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler
Image
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
William Osler
Image
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler
Image
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
William Osler
Image
To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
William Osler
Image
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
William Osler
Image
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
William Osler