WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg precariousness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Browne, Thomas -- Religio Medici, Part 1, sec. 44 (1643) https://wist.info/browne-thomas/49130/ https://wist.info/browne-thomas/49130/#respond Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:46:25 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=49130 Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

[Men that looke no further than their outsides thinke health an appertinance unto life, and quarrell with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that Fabrick hangs, doe wonder that we are not alwayes so; and considering the thousand dores that lead to death doe thanke my God that we can die but once.]


Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician and author
Religio Medici, Part 1, sec. 44 (1643)
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