Doctors Quotes

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

Chinese Proverb

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Benjamin Franklin

Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Ambrose Bierce

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

Marcel Proust

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.

W. H. Auden

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Claudius Galen

Time is generally the best doctor.

Ovid

Physician, heal thyself.

Proverb

The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.

Gregory Dean Jr.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Denis Diderot

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Thomas Horder

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 doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Gerhard Kocher

The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.

Gerhard Kocher

Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?

Gerhard Kocher

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

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine

Michael Crichton