Doctors Quotes - Page 2

• The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Believe, Health, Reason

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• I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Office

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• I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

  Robert M. Fresco

  Talking, Medical, Tranquility

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• I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

  Roberta Flack

  Weight, Lost, Diets

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• Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Kindness, Promise

  Cities of the Plain Pt I, Ch. 1,'My Social Life'

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• There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

  Aida Turturro

  People

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• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

  James Hillman

  Children, Kids, People

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

  Walter Cronkite

  Years, Play, Tennis

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• A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Redemption, Able, Serious

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• Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

  Peter Shaffer

  Passion, Medical, Tranquility

  Equus (1973) act 2, sc. 35

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• I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

  Charles Schumer

  Rights, Decision, Bills

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• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  Zoe Saldana

  Growing Up, Barbie Dolls, Secret Love

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Time is generally the best doctor.

  Ovid

  Time, Medical, Tranquility

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• I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

  John Donne

  Funny, Humorous, Health

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631”, p.518

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• The great 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

  Morning, Wife, Secret Love

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• Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Health

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

  Al McGuire

  Graduation, Basketball, Country

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• I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

  Cesar Romero

  Insomnia, Medical, Tranquility

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Practice Of Medicine, Farewell To Arms, Medical

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  James H. Boren

  Humorous, Medicine, Medical Bills

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• We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

  Barbara Boxer

  Technology, Needs, World

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• When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Health, Touching

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• I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

  Nicolas Cage

  Eight, Blood, Hands

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• I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

  George Carlin

  Comedy, Building, Genuine

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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