Physicians Quotes

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Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him. — Michel de Montaigne
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what… — Tacitus
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. — Publilius Syrus
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear… — Honore de Balzac
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than… — John Dryden
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. — Plutarch
Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans… — John F. Kerry
To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician… — John Owen
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old. — Samuel Wilson
Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be… — David Eisenberg
I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing. — Saint Francis de Sales
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can… — Erasmus Darwin
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a… — Francis of Assisi
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. — William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. — William Osler
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get… — Saint Basil

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