Doctors Quotes - Page 8

• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

  Steven Moffat

  Song, Names, Rivers

  "Doctor Who / The Big Bang". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

  Steven Moffat

  Games, Play, Library

  "Doctor Who (Forest of the Dead)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. June 7, 2008.

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Hypocrite

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

  Alice James

  Women, Memorable, Interviews

  1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

  Ashley Montagu

  Health, Science, Taught

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

  Hippocrates

  Medical, Tranquility, Harm

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• I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Patient, Condescending, Terrible

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• He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Stupidity, Heirs

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

  Wendy Liebman

  House, Parent, Want

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• I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Thinking, Years, Osteoporosis

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

  Anthony Burgess

  Physicians, Credit, Guessing

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

  Shane Koyczan

  Scratches, Do You Love Me

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• The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Harmony, Sensible, Persons

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.52, Editorial MAXTOR

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• I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Names, Giving, Witch

  "Ferraro Recounts Second Thoughts On Her Nomination, Citing Scrutiny" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 1984.

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Funny, Humor, Medicine

  'A Sentimental Journey' (1768) 'The Pulse. Paris'

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• I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

  Claudette Colbert

  Married, Wonderful, Periods

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  Abe Lemons

  Motivational Sports, School, League

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• There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

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• She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

  Aaron Sorkin

  News, Persons

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.

  Red Skelton

  Dollars, Looks, Green

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• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  Nathan Deal

  Technology, Physicians, Cost

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• I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

  Les Dawson

  Witty, Wind, Kites

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