"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"Every invalid is a doctor." »Irish Proverb
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"The doctor is to be feared more than the disease." »Latin Proverb
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"A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor." »Scottish Proverb
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"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The billiard table is better than the doctor." »Mark Twain
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"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"Walking twenty miles a day keeps the Witch doctor away." »Johnny Wowk
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"The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know." »Will Rogers
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"I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar." »Ronald Reagan
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"My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August." »Ronnie Shakes
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." »Orson Welles
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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience." »Alice Jones
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"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." »Jimmy Stewart
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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." »Isaac Asimov
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"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso." »Rita Rudner
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"Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience." »Alice James
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"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.'" »Shirley Chisholm
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"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went." »Omar Khayym
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"As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event." »Andrew Schneider
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture." »Mick Lloyd Kerman
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"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." »Thomas Edison
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"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes." »Douglas Adams, Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe, and Everything"
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"The doctor of the Future will give no medicine but will interest [teach] his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." »Thomas Edison
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"Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the sick masters!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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