Home > Topic > the well
41 " Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free. "
― Shannon Celebi
42 " You can argue with a thousand scholars but not with one fool who thinks he's correct and perfect all the time. It's just simple as a frog in the well thinks its dark, damp well is the whole universe. Secretly trying to imitate, but he knows he cannot change his mindset. He would point out your faults for self satisfaction. Just accept what they say and help them to live a long life! "
― Heshan Udunuwara
43 " They've named the well after you." " How did they know my name?" " They don't. They invented one. "
44 " The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well. "
― Abhijit Naskar
45 " We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and sometimes in animal form, often as a sacred fish - and her presence permeates well lore, and indeed water lore generally. "
― Colin Bord
46 " In the Scotland of the early seventeenth century, an old woman living alone in Kirkcudbrightshire was accused of witchcraft and on conviction was rolled downhill in a blazing tar barrel. One of the charges against her was that she walked withershins round a well near her cottage which was used by other people. The well was afterwards known as the Witch's Well. These episodes must surely serve as cautionary tales to anyone tempted to transgress the usual custom of walking deasil round a holy well. "
― Colin Bord, ,
47 " Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead. "
― Franklin Gillette , Compatibility: The Code of Harmony for Love and Unity
48 " The story was an 82 year old guy with a broken neck. He had apparently fallen in his bathroom that morning, cracking his 1st and 2nd vertebrae. I had a vague memory from medical school that this wasn't a good thing--the expression " hangman's fracture" kept bobbing up from the well of facts I do not use --but I had a much more distinct impression that this was not a case for cardiology." And Ortho isn't taking him because?" I said wearily." Because he's got internal organs, dude." I sighed. " So why me?" " Because they got an EKG." The MAO was clearly enjoying himself. I remembered he had recently been accepted to a cardiology fellowship. I braced myself for the punch line." And?" " And there's ectopy on it. Ectopy." He then made a noise intended to suggest a ghost haunting something. "
49 " Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. "
― Susan Sontag , Illness as Metaphor
50 " Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well Who put her in? Little Tommy Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout. "
51 " The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last. "
52 " I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. "
53 " Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language. "
54 " The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick. "
55 " But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. "
56 " There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children. "
