In Stitches

Diabetes taught me discipline. - Sonia Sotomayor

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Boredom is a sickness of the soul. - Unknown

Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. - Elaine Stritch

You got a very warfed sense of humor. - Archie Bunker

I'm so mean, I make medicine sick. - Muhammad Ali

The best medicine is having a good wife. - Kin Hubbard

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. - Mark Twain

When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck

The way a doctor writes out a subscription. - Archie Bunker

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. - Carrie Latet

Better a lucky physician than a learned one. - English Proverb

Laughing Stock: Cattle with a sense of humour - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. - Larry Gelbart

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes. - Stephen Wallem

Somebody must get the incompetent lawyers and doctors. - George Bernard Shaw

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx

There is no physician who can cure the disease of love. - African Proverb

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. - Chinese Proverb

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. - Mignon McLaughlin

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

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing. - Johnny Depp

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health. - Hebrew Proverb

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. - August Bier

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward de Bono

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. - Irvin S. Cobb

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. - George D. Prentice

Be kind to your dentist because he has "fillings" too. - Unknown

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. - Phyllis Bottome

Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age. Humour is universal. - Jeremy Lloyd

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. - Winston Bennett

The next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything. - Radhika Apte

A decrepit society shuns humour as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things. - Gilbert Gottfried

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. - Don Herold

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. - Joseph Heller

Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. - Roul Turley

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humour. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain. - Graham Norton

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. - Sir Walter Raleigh

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

I'm not sick, I'm twisted. Sick makes it sound like there's a cure! - Unknown

The doctors can cure all sorts of ills, except the shock of doctors' bills. - Unknown

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

First the Doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. - Steve Martin

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. - Max Eastman

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. - Carmen Electra

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time. - Stephen Furst

Virus is a Latin word used by doctors to mean 'your guess is as good as mine'. - Bob Hope

The latest thing in psychiatry is group therapy. Instead of couches, they use bunk beds. - Henny Youngman

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. - Maurice Sendak

I've just become a pensioner so I've started saving up for my own hospital trolley. - Tom Baker

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of our superiority to all that befalls us. - Romain Gary

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. - Teri Garr

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E.B. White

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

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. - Joey Adams

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. - Jennifer Jones

A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. - Xavier Becerra

Companies need to lighten up and take themselves less seriously. They need to get a sense of humor. - Unknown

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

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. - Chevy Chase

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. - Lou Holtz

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. - Shirley MacLaine

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. - Martin H. Fischer

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. - Mark Hyman

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. - Joe E. Lewis

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. - Lana Turner

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. - Ron Santo

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - WC Fields

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. - Tina Fey

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humor. - Ralph Inge

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car. - Jessica Pare

I'm planning to adopt a dog soon. It wasn't my first choice but my Doctor told me I can't have any biologically. - Bill Murray

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great, but how to laugh through it. - Liza Minnelli

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. - Harvey Cushing

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. - Sergio Aragones

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. - Seth Godin

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. - Martin H. Fischer

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. - Gerald F Lieberman

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist. - Frankie Muniz

A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor - these are all things that make a woman attractive. - Jessica Ortner

In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine. - Dave deBronkart