Quotes about Doctors

“Physician, heal thyself.”

“Every invalid is a physician.”

“Time is generally the best doctor.”

“Cure the disease and kill the patient.”

“God heals and the doctor takes the fee.”

“A surgeon should be young a physician old.”

“Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.”

“There are more old drunkards than old physicians.”

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”

“The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.”

“Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.”

“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.”

“A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.”

“The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.”

“I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.”

“Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.”

“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”

“Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.”

“If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.”

“There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.”

“I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.”

“I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.”

“The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

“The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.”

“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”

“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”

“It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.”

“What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.”