Jacob M. Appel Quotes
Jacob M. Appel Quotes
The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.
1148This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.
4739Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.
2181Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.
4779Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.
3900I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....
2820Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.
4073The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
4551If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....
4999Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.
3002Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
3282Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.
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