Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Joseph Murray

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Justin Bieber

Whenever I'm sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever!

Jules Feiffer

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Josh Billings

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Karl Kraus

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Paracelsus

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"

Elisabeth Sladen

I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.

Elaine Stritch

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

Jonah Lomu

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair

Josh Holloway

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Joan Didion

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Eric Topol

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

Eric Davis

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

John McPhee

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

John McCain

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

John Harvey Kellogg

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

John Ensign

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

John Oliver

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Joe Haldeman

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Joan Rivers

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

Jimmy Fallon

One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.

Garry Trudeau

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Freida Pinto

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

Frank Lautenberg

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

Haruki Murakami

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Edward Albee

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Heidi Julavits

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

Henry Fielding

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Billie Piper

At first, Rose isn't that keen on the idea - she wants the Doctor all to herself. But Mickey, this year, really comes into his own. And he saves the day.