Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Charles Grassley

We need to know whether that was an isolated incident or whether similar tragedies have happened or could happen because doctors aren't present during emergencies.

Regina Brett

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.

Dorothy Moore

Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients,

Robert Kiyosaki

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Jerry Dorsey

I think (Hudson) is going to be more oriented in listening to doctors and be more open-minded about ideas doctors have. I think he'll be a good fit with physicians here.

Kevin Towers

We have to talk to our doctors to see if he's ready, ... He's a guy who could be a big part of our plans. He fits the profile we're looking for at that position.

Charles Lamb

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

John Heywood

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Benjamin Franklin

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Ambrose Bierce

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Daniel Nathans

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Dennis McBride

We are trying to get referrals from the physicians themselves,

Michel de Montaigne

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

Daniel D. Palmer

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

George Herbert

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

William J. Mayo

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Patty Stonesifer

The polio-eradication initiative has shown the world that even in the poorest countries, widespread and debilitating disease can be defeated.

Benjamin Rush

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

Vivi Widyawati

We have always acknowledged pornography as a disease that must be eradicated, but not through a repressive law.

Thomas Mettenleiter

It has nothing to do with the spread of the disease or the threat of an epidemic.

William Shakespeare

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

Julie Hall

It does show how one person, one case, can potentially spread the disease to a considerable number of people,

Cindy Gross

We received a report from a medical provider. It is a required reportable disease.

Roger Cook

To grow a lawn that greens up naturally each spring and that resists drought and disease, you need to foster a strong root system.