Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Gregory

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

David Perlmutter

Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren’t given the drug.

David Perlmutter

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Deepak Chopra

Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

Amy Sedaris

When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

David Williams

He was proud to tell you that he practiced medicine for 52 years.

If it wasn't for St. Vincent's, we couldn't get any medicine at all.

William Shakespeare

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

William Shakespeare

I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.

Angela Jones

Parents need to keep medicines out of the reach of the children.

B. R. Ambedkar

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Carl Jung

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

Carl Jung

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

John Dewey

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

John Calvin

For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

John Calvin

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Joel Fuhrman

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Joel Fuhrman

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

Jose Rizal

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Livy

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Lord Byron

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

Mahatma Gandhi

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Oliver Sacks

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

Oliver Sacks

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Oliver Sacks

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

O. Henry

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

John Knowles

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.