Medicine Quotes


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Don`t live in a town where there are no doctors.

- Acton Gorton

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

- Voltaire
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- A.J. Haut

(Medicine is) a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

- Adam Wainwright

Basically, I`m for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

- Frank Sinatra

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

- William Shakespeare

The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

- William Shakespeare

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing

- Voltaire
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful

- Martin Luther

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

- William Osler

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

- William Osler

There is no medicine to cure hatred

- African Proverb

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)

- Bible
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I`ve heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven`t seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

- Brian Carter

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.

- Brian Carter

Even people who aren`t sick may not have optimal wellness.

- Brian Carter

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

- Dr. Joel J. Nobel

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

- Gerhard Kocher

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

- Gerhard Kocher

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow

- Orison Swett Marden

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

- Ovid
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Laughter is the best medicine.

- Proverb
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