Famous quotes containing the words canker and/or sores:
“First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)