Turning People Into Pigeons

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Christopher Walken

Sickness soaks the purse. - International Proverb

Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid

Italy is a geographical expression. - Prince Metternich

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - 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

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. - Dutch Proverb

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

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do. - Pat Cash

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. - German Proverb

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy. - Amy Sedaris

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. - Chang Ch'ao

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer

Save one life, you're a hero. Save 100 lives, you're a nurse. - Unknown

Confucius say: "Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient." - Unknown

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

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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. - Jonathan Swift

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. - Isabel Allende

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. - Groucho Marx

I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. - P.J. O'Rourke

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. - Bertrand Russell

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

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

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

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. - William Osler

You can catch health, happiness, and success from others just as easily as you can catch worries, bitterness, and failure. - Dale Carnegie

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. - Martin H. Fischer

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron

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

When I was born the doctor came out to the waiting room and told my father, "We did everything we could... but he pulled through." - Rodney Dangerfield

My Doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. I drink too much. Way too much. My doctor drew blood. He ran a tab. - Rodney Dangerfield

Health is the finest possession. Contentment is the ultimate wealth. Trustworthy people are the best relatives. Unbinding is the supreme ease. - Buddha

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