Medicine Quotes
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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. (Quote by - French Proverb)
One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. (Quote by - Bible)
And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. (Quote by - John Milton)
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. (Quote by - Syrus)
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering. (Quote by - Elisabeth KüBler-Ross)
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. (Quote by - John L. McClenahan)
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. (Quote by - Petronius)
'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case can be no worse, The desp'rat'st is the wisest course. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1)
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
For of the most High cometh healing. (Quote by - Bible)
He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. (Quote by - Proverb)
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet.
You behold in me Only a travelling Physician; One of the few who have a mission To cure incurable diseases, Or those that are called so. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. (Quote by - Walter Cronkite)
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms. (Quote by - Christiaan Barnard)
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him." (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A single doctor likes a sculler plies, And all his art and all his physic tries; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Conduct you soonest to the Stygian shores. (Quote by - Bible)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. (Quote by - Sir William Osler)
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. (Quote by - Cicero)
Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us, Every day! While medical detectives, With powerful objectives, Watch your play. (Quote by - William Tod Helmuth)
Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. How ended she? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. (Quote by - Alfred Kazin)
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies. (Quote by - Tacitus)
God heals and the doctor takes the fee. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The medicine increases the disease. (Quote by - Virgil or Vergil)
Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore, Replete with strange hermetic powder That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. (Quote by - John Gay)
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. (Quote by - James Bryce)
In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismayed away. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
God who sends the wound sends the medicine. (Quote by - Cervantes)
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. (Quote by - Syrus)
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion. (Quote by - Ovid)
Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die. (Quote by - Proverb)
So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. (Quote by - John Dryden)
But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic After his patient's death: the king already Hath married the fair lady. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When taken To be well shaken. (Quote by - George Colman)
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I find the medicine worse than the malady. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill, Of which you need not read one letter, The worse the scrawl, the dose the better. For if you knew but what you take, Though you recover, he must break. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. (Quote by - James Bryce)
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
