Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Williams

He was proud to tell you that he practiced medicine for 52 years.

Richard Dawkins

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Richard Whately

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Robert Trout

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

Walter Raleigh

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

James Cook

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Oliver Sacks

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

Oliver Sacks

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Oliver Sacks

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

O. Henry

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

It sure is going to be a struggle as we back off on rental sales, You take your medicine and you go on.

Nell Carter

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

Ken Jeong

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

Karl Marx

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

P. T. Barnum

Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.

Ovid

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Paul Farmer

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Paul Farmer

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

Moliere

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Marquis de Sade

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

Nicki Minaj

I got the pumps It aint got medicine

Nick Offerman

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

Mark Twain

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Nicholas Culpeper

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

Nicholas A. Christakis

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

Mitt Romney

The last thing we need is Hillarycare. The last thing we need is socialized medicine.

Mitt Romney

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

R. D. Laing

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.