Doctors Quotes

• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

  Walter Matthau

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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• It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Government, People

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Humorous, Medicine

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• The best doctor gives the least medicines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

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• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Ivanov I

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• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, God

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Health, Medicine, Secret

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• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Humorous, Vaccines

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Weakness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

  Les Dawson

  Witty, Wind, Kites

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• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Data, Wish, Medical

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

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• Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

  Carl Jung

  Medicine, Disease, Patient

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• My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

  John Philpot Curran

  Night, Dear God, Coughing

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• It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Health, Medicine

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

  Anthony Burgess

  Physicians, Credit, Guessing

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  Nathan Deal

  Technology, Physicians, Cost

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Nursing, Thinking, Eggs

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• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  Earl Wilson

  Handwriting, May, Bills

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• Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Diseased, Knows

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

  William Saroyan

  Health, Matter, Spirit

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