Doctor Quotes & Sayings - Page 3



The superior doctor prevents sickness;
The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;
The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
Chinese Proverb

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
William Osler

Who are the greatest deceivers? The doctors? And the greatest fools? The patients?
Voltaire

When the physician said to him, ‘You have lived to be an old man,’ he said, ‘That is because I never employed you as my physician.’
Pausanias

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
David Riesman

The doctors were very brave about it.
Dorothy Parker

If your time hasn’t come not even a doctor can kill you.
Meyer A. Perlstein

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

These are the duties of a physician: First…to heal his mind and to give help to himself before giving it to anyone else.
Anonymous

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
Benjamin Franklin

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
Alexander Pope

The crowd of physicians has killed me.
Hadrian

I have noticed a tendency on the part of an occasional elderly and distinguished man to think that the rules of medical ethics were meant for young fellows just starting out, but not for him.
J. Chalmers Da Costa

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
Benjamin Franklin

Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician.
Proverb

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx

A country doctor needs more brains to do his work passably than the fifty greatest industrialists in the world require.
Walter B. Pitkin

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words ‘Remember that I too am mortal’.
George Bernard Shaw

By quack I mean imposter not in opposition to but in common with physicians.
Horace Walpole

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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet,
Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift

You medical people will have more lives to answer for in the other world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov

The best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter – he’s got to just know.
Will Rogers

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.
Robert Benchley

When people’s ill, they comes to I,
I physics, bleeds, and sweats ‘em;
Sometimes they live, sometimes they die.
What’s that to I? I lets ‘em.
John Coakley Lettsom

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert Highet

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

There are worse occupations in the world than feeling a woman’s pulse.
Laurence Sterne

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