(1396 quotes found)
“Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement / they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.”
Florence Nightingale
“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”
Herbert Hoover
“Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?”
Warren E. Burger
“Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
Orson Welles
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey”
Marcel Proust
“Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.”
Pete Rose
“It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.”
Edmund Burke
“My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.”
Natalie Portman
