Doctor Quotes

If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. View quote
Henny Youngman
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. View quote
Aleister Crowley
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. View quote
Orson Welles
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. (Herbert Hoover)
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. View quote
Omar Khayyám
I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. View quote
Frank Sinatra
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. View quote
Denis Diderot
Personally, I have always felt 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. View quote
Will Rogers
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. View quote
Marcel Proust
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. View quote
Thomas Edison
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. View quote
Groucho Marx
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. View quote
Thomas Fuller
First the doctor told me the good news I was going to have a disease named after me. View quote
Steve Martin
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. (Edmund Burke)
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, 'Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.' View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. View quote
Keith Richards
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor. View quote
Luise Rainer
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw