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  • I am a Doctor. A.B.†M.A.†PH.D.†ABMAPHID!†a wasting disease of the frontal lobes.

    - Edward Franklin, III Albee
      Spoken by a college professor. Who's  Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  • An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

    -Anonymous
    Proverb.

  • An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

    - Alvan Leroy Barach
      In the Journal of the American Medical  Association, vol.181, p.393.

  • You must take off your clothes for the doctor And stand as straight as a pin, His hand of stone on your white breastbone Where the bullets all go in.

    - Charles Causley
      'Recruiting Drive'.

  • Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.

    -John Dryden
      Epistle,'To my honoured kinsman  John Driden', l.92^5.

  • The doctor found, when she was dead, Her last disorder mortal.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      'Elegy on Mrs Mary Blaize'.

  • His eyesight has always been weak, a sort of film over the eyes. A doctor advised him not to read, but he said, 'Then I should be ignorant', and he refused an operation because there was a thousandth chance he might go blind and so remain ignorant.

    - Lady Isabella Augusta ne  e Persse Gregory
      Of Sean O'Casey.  Journal entry, 8  Jun.

  • I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

    - Alice James
      Diary entry, 27 Sep.

  • Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

    - Ben Jonson
      Volpone, act1, sc.3.

  • O master doctor, he is past recovery; A lethargy hath seized him.

    - Philip Massinger
      The Roman  Actor, act 2, sc.1.

  • The Doctorissaidalsotohaveinventedanextraordinary weapon which will make war less brutal. It is described as a very powerful liquid which rots braces at a distance of a mile.

    -Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
      'Bracerot'.

  • No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be thanthis'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.It would not do for a policeman.

    - Florence Nightingale
      Notes on Nursing.

  • Doctor, doctor, what do you say,!

    - Philip Milton Roth
    LET'S PUT THE ID BACK IN YID1969  Portnoy's Complaint,'Cunt Crazy'.

  • Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Misalliance, preface.

  • I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mobwould have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thingwalked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'Yes,'said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then sayaloud: 'I thank God,Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.' He answered,'I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.'

    - Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands Stanley
      How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa.

  •    Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.

  • Yas | , enfermos, ojo alerta, y a ning u n me  dico admitan; mueran de gorra, sin dar un real a la medicina. Be careful then, patients, and don't accept any doctor; die for free and do not give a single coin to medicine.

    -Juan del Valle y Caviedes
      Diente del Parnaso ('Parnassus' Tooth'),'Pro  logo al que leyere este tratado'.

  • The Governer was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.3, stanza 3.

  • My doctor forbids me to play, unless I win.

    - Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
    Of croquet. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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