Doctor quotes
Ace Jane
Doctor, feel my purse.
Appley Lawrence
Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient trening to become a doctor.
Betti Ugo 1882-1954
A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Gatewood W. Boyd
Vey few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
„Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize"
The doctor found, when she was dead,
Her last disorder mortal.
Hippocrates c. 460-377 BC
Wherever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Milton John 1608 1674
Samson Agonistes
... Of such doctrine never was there school,
But the heart of the fool,
And no man therein doctor but himself.
Moliére 1622-1673
A doctor Wastes no time with patients; and if you have to die, he will put the business through quicker than anybody else.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Nightingale Florence 1820-1910
Notes on Nursing
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - „devoted and obedient". This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
Owen John c. 1563-1622
Epigrams
God and the doctor we alike adore
But only when in danger, not before;
The danger o'er, both are alike requited,
God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
Prior Matthew 1664-1721
„Paolo Purganti and his Wife"
The doctor understood the call;
But had not always wherewithal.
Punch 1841-1992
What sort of a doctor is he?Oh well, I don't know very much about his ability; but he's got a very good bedside manner!
Ratner Herbert
The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.
Roth Philip 1933-
Portnoy's Complaint
Doctor, my doctor, what do you say, LET'S PUT THE ID BACK IN YID!
Shriner Herb
Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary.
He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Virginibus Puerisque „Aes Triplex"
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a moth, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Wright Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an arhitect can only advise his clients to plant vines.