Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

Michel de Montaigne

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Michel de Montaigne

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

Michael Sandel

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

Marianne Williamson

Love will be our 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.

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.

R. D. Laing

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.

Publilius Syrus

Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

Publilius Syrus

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

Publilius Syrus

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Publilius Syrus

Equanimity is calamity's 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.

Ivan Illich

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

Ida Tarbell

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Harold E. Varmus

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

Michael B. Jordan

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh

Randy Newman

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

Shaun Alexander

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

Sherman Alexie

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Norman Cousins

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

Miguel de Cervantes

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

John Wesley

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

John Steinbeck

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Nikola Tesla

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

N. Scott Momaday

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

Mort Kondracke

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

Patricia Cornwell

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.