Wise Doctor

Aphorism: Predigested wisdom. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom requires the long view. - John F. Kennedy

No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca

Dyspupsia: Being sick as a dog. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Good doctors make poor patients. - Unknown

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

Dentist Office: A filling station - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I'd rather be funny than wise. - Dennis Miller

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. - Elaine Stritch

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

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

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - JRR Tolkien

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. - George Burns

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. - Unknown

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. - Arabic proverb

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

A flow of words does not mean a flow of wisdom. - Rosalind Ferguson

False Doctrine: Giving people the wrong medicine - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

My doctor tells me I got a communications disease. - Archie Bunker

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it. - Nell Carter

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

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

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake. - Gerald Brooks

Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it. - Syrus

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian

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

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. - WC Fields

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

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. - Joseph B Wirthlin

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift

Ceremony: The invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Operation: A surgical job taking minutes to do and years to describe - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him. - Martin H. Fischer

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. - Michel de Montaigne

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick - not wounded - dead. - Woody Allen

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

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

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to Les Folies Bergere and looks at the audience. - Mervyn Stockwood

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quoatations. - Benjamin Disraeli

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! - Israel Zangwill

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old. - Madame de Rothschild

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket. - Ambrose Bierce

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. - Anne Bradstreet

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson

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

Psychiatrist: a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free. - Unknown

Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

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

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. - Chinese Proverb

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! - Martin H. Fischer

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life. - Paula Deen

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!' - Randy Jackson

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

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

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

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

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. - Martin Luther

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. - Anton Chekhov

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

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? - Tom Robbins

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is a man who collects the rent. - Lord Webb-Johnson

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. - Samuel Butler