Health Quotes (1)
A doctor would promise life to a corpse if it could swallow the pills.
– Napoleon
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
– William Osler
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
– Voltaire
Some people reckon that doctors and nurses can place scrambled eggs back into the shell.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
He cures most in whom most have faith.
– Galen
Oh, the powers of Nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing.
– Benvenuto Cellini, 1860
The fantastic secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is
that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
– Lewis Thomas, NY Times Magazine
Cur’d yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
– Matthew Prior
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, then demand of them an undeserved fee for such
services.
– Heraclitus, 500 BC
As long as we are liable to die, and desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he
will be well paid.
– La Bruyere, 1688
Physicians are like Kings – They brook no contradiction.
– John Webster, 1613
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
– Benjamin Franklin
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply
through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
– Hippocrates
Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for
the Lord hath made him.
– Ecclesiasticus 38:1
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up
the X-rays.
– Joey Bishop
It is right that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and
dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
– George Santayana