Happy St. Patrick's Day 2020

I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan

Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell

The best doctor gives the least medicines. - Benjamin Franklin

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy

There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic

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

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Three out of four doctors recommend another doctor. - Graffito

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do. - Marc Lipsitch

God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world. - Irish Saying

Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. - Rex Reed

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. - Thomas R Insel

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. - Bill O'Reilly

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Jameson's Irish Whiskey really does improve with age: the older I get the more I like it. - Bob Monkhouse

Most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms. - Caroline Fraser

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats

"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift

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

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw

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

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say; sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say. - W H Auden

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you: that action on your part which best conserves the interest of your patient. - Martin H. Fischer

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner. - Liam Neeson

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