Medicine

(220 votes)   I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(178 votes)   He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(156 votes)   I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great
352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King

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(125 votes)   What can't be cured must be endured.

Robert Burton
1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar

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

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(109 votes)   By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(107 votes)   It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(91 votes)   I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(88 votes)   She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Rebecca West
1892-1983, British Author

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(80 votes)   Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(80 votes)   Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1928-, Colombian Writer

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(74 votes)   God's people always empathize the innocent loss of life. God even created the guys you don't like.

Xplicit Man
comedian

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(71 votes)   The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

Jean Paul

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(69 votes)   Sleep is better than medicine.

Source Unknown

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(66 votes)   I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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