A Quote by William Arthur Ward

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

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Time Learned Temporary Test Tonic Tribulation Trouble Truths Tube Wise

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William Arthur Ward
American - Writer
1921 - 1994

I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.

Richard Willstatter

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Martin Luther

It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

Horace Mann

A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.

Jack Hyles

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Martin Fleischmann

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

James Patterson

The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.

Erwin Chargaff

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

John B. Watson

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

Stan Bowles

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

Jeremy Irvine

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

Virgil Abloh

They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

Emily Dickinson

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.

Dorothea Dix

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.