(1396 quotes found)
“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
Anton Chekhov
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
Hippocrates
“Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.”
Roger Bannister
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
Ovid
“The families have become the doctors, the nurses and the social workers.”
Dr. John Talbott
“There's more old Drunkards than old Doctors”
Benjamin Franklin
“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.”
Isaac Asimov
“No one becomes a good doctor before he fills a churchyard”
Swedish Proverb
“According to doctors, George Bush has the lowest heartbeat ever recorded by someone in the White House. Well, second lowest. Dick Cheney got his down to zero a couple of times.”
Jay Leno
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
Ernest Hemingway