Medicine quotations

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◆ Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

- Julie Marie99

◆ Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence

- James Bryce98

◆ Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist

- Russian Proverb98

◆ By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

- William Shakespeare98

◆ The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

- William Shakespeare98

◆ The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes98

◆ Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful

- Martin Luther98

◆ The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

- William Osler98

◆ The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

- Voltaire98

◆ The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

- William J Mayo98

◆ Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

- Hippocrates98

◆ The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

- Thomas Huxley98

◆ Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition

- French Proverb98

◆ Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

- W H Auden98

◆ The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes98