English Teacher’s Hospital Greeting

A hospital patient, a distinguished teacher of English literature, received a note from a student, with this salutation: “Dear ill literate...” QuotaBills He that hopes no good fears no ill. - Thomas Fuller Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. - Carrie Latet It's an ill plan that cannot be changed. - Latin Proverb Nurses — one of the few blessings of being ill. - Sara Moss-Wolfe A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay. - Marcia Carrington An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. - George Bernard Shaw The cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. - Jonathan Swift A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. - French Proverb No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. - Chinese Proverb We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. - William Hazlitt A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. - Martin H. Fischer Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. - Ovid Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? - Luciano Pavarotti The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. - Jean Cocteau A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche First the Doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. - Steve Martin Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G B Burgin Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. - Dag Hammarskjold My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. - James Bryce The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. - William Withey Gull Even if the doctor does not give you a year ... make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. - Robert Louis Stevenson 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 'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. - Thomas Szasz The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 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 I've got a great doctor. He gave a guy six months to live. They couldn't pay his bill so he gave him another six months. - Henny Youngman Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. - George Bernard Shaw 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 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 I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. - Rodney Dangerfield Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill 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 Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. - Robert Brault see also   Hospital  Section 1-800-PILLCASH Acceptable Doctors Sign Alzheimer’s Wing An Old Man’s Dying Request Arkansas Cure For Terminal Illness Birth Control Pill For Men Car Surgeon Celebrity Swine Flu Fatality Chiropractor Mailbox Coke Dispenser Colon Celery Colorectal Exam For Dogs Colorectal Surgeon Praise Constipated Mathematician Diabetes Medication Do You Have An HMO? 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05-Apr-2020