Apothecary Quotes

• An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Spirit, Should

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.48

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• No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Lying, Doctors, Medicine

  Medical Essays 'Current and Counter-Currents in Medical Science'

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• true apothecary thy drugs art quick

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drug

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• Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Death, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

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• If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

  John Gerard

  May, Satisfaction, Excellent

  John Gerard, (2013). “Gerard's Herball - Or, Generall Historie of Plantes”, p.3, Read Books Ltd

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• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  Paracelsus

  Medicine, Office, Alchemy

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.

  George Herbert

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• APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Physicians, Graves

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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• The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Food, Science

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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• Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Pouring, Mixtures

  Laurence Sterne (1767). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.3

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• For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led to the main character, Lilly Haswell, who finds herself doing the work of an apothecary at a time when it was illegal for women to do so.

  Julie Klassen

  Daughter, Character, Thinking

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, Rivers

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• The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Museums, Medicine, Drug

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• Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Ambition, Mean

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.400

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