For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm. Edwin Way Teale
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more. Walter Matthau
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. Cass Canfield
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.’ Abe Lemons
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more. Walter Matthau
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.’ Abe Lemons
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. Henny Youngman
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. Anton Chekhov
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’. Swami Sivananda
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. William Osler
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. Chuck Schumer
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. Patrick Swayze
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. James H. Boren
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. Norman Cousins
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
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou
