Doctors Quotes

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Mark Twain

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?

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

John Donne

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

Wilder Penfield, 1921

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

William Saroyan

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.

Martin H. Fisher

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Dr. Richard Selzer

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Francis Bacon

The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

Ellen G. White

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

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement -- they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Florence Nightingale

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Kurt Vonnegut

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

William Osler

God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees

Benjamin Franklin

Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.

Gerhard Kocher

Every invalid is a physician.

Proverb

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

William Osler

The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.

Oliver Goldsmith