Happy St. Patrick's Day 2020

Medicine is the best medicine. - Doctors Anonymous

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

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

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck

Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. - Maria Edgeworth

Every time somebody gets the Ebola virus, it mutates. - Glenn Beck

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses? - Edmund H North

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. - Daphne Zuniga

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery

You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine

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

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. - Liam Neeson

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood, I'd just type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov

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

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

The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to know. - Will Rogers

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. - Leonardo da Vinci

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. - Erin O'Connor

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

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?",
New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt

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