A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.
Leonard Louis Levinson
A young doctor makes a humpy graveyard.
English Proverb
Proverb
The presence of the doctor is the beginning of the cure.
Proverb
No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
Proverb
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Michel de Montaigne
Doctors and undertakers
Fear epidemics of good health.
Gerald Barzan
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
Hippocrates
Physicians, like beer, are best when they are old.
Thomas Fuller
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
Paracelsus
After all, a doctor is just to put your mind at rest.
Petronius
English physicians kill you let you die.
William Lamb, Lord Melbourne
Physicians are like kings, – they brook no contradiction.
John Webster
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
Petronius Arbiter
Doctors are generally dull dogs.
John Wilson
Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
Irish Proverb
Physicians’ faults are covered with earth, and rich men’s with money.
Proverb
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
That physician will hardly be thought very careful of the health of others who neglects his own.
Galen
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henry Youngman
The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
David Lloyd George
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Anton Chekhov
The blunders of a doctor are felt not by himself but by others.
Ar-Rumi
He had surrendered all reality, all dread and fear, to the doctor beside him, as people do.
William Faulkner
The most tragic is a sick doctor.
George Bernard Shaw
The skilful doctor treats those who are well but the inferior doctor treats those who are ill.
Ch’in Yueh-jen
In illness the physician is a father; in convalescence a friend; when health is restored, he is a guardian.
Anonymous
Fifty years ago the successful doctor was said to need three things; a top hat to give him Authority, a paunch to give him Dignity, and piles to give him an Anxious Expression.
Anonymous
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
Jonathan Swift
But a has gone into lonely and discouraged homes, where there was fear for the sick, and no one else at hand to administer remedy, and give hope, can really say, ‘I amount to something. I’m worth while.’
Carlton K. Matson