Medical Quotes
Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
- Jean Martin Charcot
Every disease is a physician.
- Irish Proverb
God heals and the Doctor takes the fee.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- Voltaire
No doctor is better than three.
- German Proverb
He greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
A merry heart does good like medicine.
- Proverbs
Treat the patient, not the Xray.
- James M. Hunter
Medicines are not meat to live by.
- German
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases.
- Karl Marx
Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.
- William Shakespeare
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
- George Herbert
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
- Hippocrates
How unfair! Only one health, and so many diseases.
- Victor Schlichter
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
- Arabic Proverb
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
- William Shakespeare
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
- Alfred Adler
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.
- German Proverb
Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
- Robert Burton
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
- Chinese Proverb
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
- Ovid
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
- Norman Cousins
A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.
- Martin H. Fischer
Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
- E.Y. Harburg
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
- August Bier
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.
- August Bier
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
- Mignon McLaughlin
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
- Henri Amiel
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier’s office.
Francis O’Walsh
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Cicero
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
- Don Herold
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.
- Chinese Proverb
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
- William Cullen
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines.
- Thomas More
The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable.
- Paul Dean
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, theology makes them sinful.
- Martin Luther King
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.
- J.J. Walsh
I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford.
- Betsy Salkind


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