Milk of Amnesia

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest wealth is health. - Virgil

Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid

A young doctor means a new graveyard. - German Proverb

Pain is temporary; quitting is forever. - Lance Armstrong

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. - Dutch Proverb

The best doctor gives the least medicines. - Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. - Carrie Latet

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck

Three out of four doctors recommend another doctor. - Graffito

Sarcasm - because beating the crap out of people is illegal. - Unknown

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. - Martin H. Fischer

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. - Steven Wright

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. - Henri Amiel

A nurse will always give us hope,
an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. - Cicero

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. - Peter Mere Latham

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. - Seneca

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. - Martin H. Fischer

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. - Finley Peter Dunne

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

When I was born the Doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" - Rodney Dangerfield

Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting... it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity. - Marcus Aurelius

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. - Bob Hope

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - O.S. Marden

My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. - Milton Berle

I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. - Rodney Dangerfield

Do something everyday that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain