Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
Interpretation
While penicillin heals physical ailments, wine provides joy and happiness to people.
This quote by Alexander Fleming contrasts the medicinal properties of penicillin, which is critical for health and healing, with the joyful effects of wine, suggesting that while medicine addresses our physical needs, happiness and emotional well-being often come from other sources, such as social interactions and enjoyment of life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a toast at a celebration to emphasize the importance of happiness.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.
I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.
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