Medicine Quotes

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

I love you as I do all - not at all.

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.

Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.

Monkeying around with other apes, a monkey was made - called, HUMAN. God is great!

I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.

If I were married, I would be unmarried.

Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.

To cure sometimes to relieve often to comfort always.

Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.

What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.

The body never lies.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.

After dinner rest a while after supper walk a mile.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery in which from time to time he goes to pray a cemetery of bitterness and regret of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.

Symptoms then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

Every invalid is a physician.

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money he wouldn't lay a hand on you.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'

A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps.

A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.

I was sick and ye visited me.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

Doctor feel my purse.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know but in a much more complicated manner.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

Invalids live longest.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.