Doctor Quotes

Asimov, Isaac
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.


Bombeck, Erma
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.


Chinese Proverb
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.


Colman, George
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.


Franklin, Benjamin
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.


Gay, John
"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 tomorrow.


Highet, Gilbert
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.


Hippocrates
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.


Irish Proverb
Every patient is a doctor after his cure.


Martin, Steve
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.


Shaw, George Bernard
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.