Talk:Paracelsus

• So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

This quote seems unlikely as guns were not common household items in the early 1500s, pistols even less so. Can we get a source? Rmhermen 13:07, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Nothing but the usual web suspects, like BrainyQuote.com. Many other websites cite it as coming from Edgar Watson Howe. (Howe, at least, appears to be a 19th/20th-century quotee.) Neither Bartlett (1980) nor Oxford (1999) have this quote under anyone's name. — Jeff Q (talk) 16:27, 4 May 2005 (UTC)