Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

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.

Larry the Cable Guy

I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

Pablo Picasso

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Patsy Cline

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Francois Rabelais

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Chris Pronger

My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.

Fran Drescher

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

Fran Lebowitz

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

George Santayana

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Norman Cousins

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

Edward Albee

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Jonah Lomu

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair

Tom Riley

The thing about Doctor Who is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location,

Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Simone Weil

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Simon Pegg

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

Simon Hughes

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Sophie Aldred

There was something very special about Doctor Who, and I did miss it a lot.

Rush Limbaugh

If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

Rob Wittman

Thousand of Virginia's are losing their coverage, facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and losing their doctors under Obamacare. Employers across the Commonwealth say that the law is preventing or slowing down hiring and growth.