Doses Quotes

“But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A man with malaria parasites in his blood is a danger to his companions. To kill all the parasites, he was then required to continue doses of quinine a week or ten days after his fever. When the convalescing men were given their daily dose of quinine they would manage to throw their tablets out of the dispensary window. The old turkey-gobbler pet of the hospital gobbled up all the tablets he could find. He became so dissipated he finally developed a species of blindness caused by too much quinine. I cannot vouch for this, but I was often twitted with this story as an illustration of how the men were treating prophylactic quinine.”

“Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.”

“Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses.”

“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”

“[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.”

“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”

“True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.”

“Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.”

“A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.”