Medicine Quotes

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Josh Billings

Best, Lord, Thank

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid

Health, Sometimes, Away

The medicine increases the disease.
Virgil

Disease, Increases

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna

Away, Leave, Patient

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams

Fear, Mind, Cheerful

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Freedom, Death

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Masses, Duties, Physician

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
Dick Gregory

Understand, Sick, Makes

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid

Understand, Feared, Consumed

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Herbert Simon

Business, Design, Short

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
Brad Henry

Time, Fear, Medical

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Albert Pike

Truth, Mind, Justice

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Paracelsus

Life, Art, Science

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher Hitchens

Leave, Physical, Weaker

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
King Solomon

Good, Heart, Merry

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles

Time, Health, Knowledge

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
W. H. Auden

Health, Nothing, State

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Success, Different, Story

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

Life, Sick, Dead

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Nicolas Chamfort

Good, Philosophy, Few

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
Elizabeth Edwards

Tomorrow, Help, Expect

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
Elizabeth Edwards

Job, Until, Alive

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Peter Singer

Business, Law, Problems

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.
Carol Vorderman

Best, Laughter, Put

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome

Suffering, Read, Disease

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler

Truth, Important, Since

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
Thomas Szasz

Nothing, Healing, Illness

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Robert Trout

Before, Addiction, Used

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
Eliot Spitzer

Politics, Time, Good

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