Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas More

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

Thomas Sowell

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

Robert Morley

A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

Vinod Khosla

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,

Roberta Flack

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

Sarah Sutton

I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

Sarah Sutton

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

Ricki Lake

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Richard Selzer

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Richard Francis Burton

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

Richard Lamm

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.

Richard Carmona

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

Ugo Betti

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Roger Ailes

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

Trent Reznor

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department,

Vince Flynn

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well,

Robert Green Ingersoll

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Ronald Reagan

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Robert Jay Lifton

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Rodney Dangerfield

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

Rodney Dangerfield

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Vincent Canby

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

Warren Buffett

Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

Samuel Barber

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Ryan Reynolds

I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless.

Rudolph Valentino

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

Wendy Liebman

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Virginia Postrel

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Ty Cobb

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

Warren Zevon

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Stephen Colbert

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.