Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Maurois

Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.

Ambrose Bierce

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Alice Sebold

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Anne Hull

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Stories are medicine.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

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.

Andrew Weil

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

Andrew Weil

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Andrew Weil

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

Andrew Weil

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative 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.

J. Taylor

That's where the science of medicine is going.

Ken Jeong

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

Karl Marx

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Mark Twain

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Nicholas Culpeper

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

Nicholas A. Christakis

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

Jay Griffiths

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Jaron Lanier

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Leonardo da Vinci

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

Leonardo da Vinci

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

P. T. Barnum

Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.

Ovid

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Paul Farmer

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Paul Farmer

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

Mitt Romney

The last thing we need is Hillarycare. The last thing we need is socialized medicine.

Mitt Romney

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.