Thomas R. Jones Quotes

JONES, Thomas R. Quotes

(1810-1880), English surgeon

Eating

By eating what is sufficient man is enabled to work; he is hindered from working and becomes heavy, idle, and stupid if he takes too much.—As to bodily distempers occasioned by excess, there is no end of them.

Opportunity

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.