Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Murray

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Justin Bieber

Whenever I'm sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever!

Jules Feiffer

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Josh Billings

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Karl Kraus

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

John Piper

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

Nancy Grace

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Nan Hayworth

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Paul Broun

One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

Martha Beck

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Margery Allingham

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Paul Auster

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Julia Roberts

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Nellie Bly

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

R. Lee Ermey

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

Jodi Picoult

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Marion Bartoli

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

Nick Minchin

It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

Nick Offerman

Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

Nawal El Saadawi

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Muhammad Ali

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

Maeve Binchy

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

Liya Kebede

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Michael Crichton

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Michel de Montaigne

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Michel de Montaigne

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Mark Twain

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

Marianne Faithfull

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

Nicholas Haslam

MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

Ned Vizzini

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

Publilius Syrus

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Nelson Mandela

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Kingsley Amis

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.