Haphazard Aphorisms

John M. Cowden, Some Haphazard Aphorisms for Epidemiology and Life:

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.”

    —Samuel Johnson (lexicographer, 1709–1784).

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You cannot hope to bribe or twist
Thank God the British journalist
But when you see what he will do
Unbribed - there’s no occasion to.

    —Humbert Wolfe (poet, 1885–1940).

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as an anonymous Frenchman said, “That’s all very well in practice, but will it work in theory?”