Mental Patient

Famous quotes containing the words mental patient, mental and/or patient:

“In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)

“One who cannot be patient for a moment will have days and months of trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.