1,141 Quotes About Doctors

As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.