Quotes
Quotes about Medicine
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est.]
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.
Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
