The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Gilles Menage
2.
A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.
Gilles Menage
3.
Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.