“There are more old drunkards than old physicians.”
Francois Rabelais
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”
William Osler
“Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians”
Marcel Proust
“Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer”
Lord Byron
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
Isaac Newton
“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine”