Medicine Quotes
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Marcel Proust
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
Walking is man's best medicine.
Hippocrates
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
Henry Louis Mencken
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Shana Alexander
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But its more than that. Its an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, its a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, its better than crying about it.
Stephen Tyrone Colbert
What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.
Patrick Condell
If a piece of 'alternative medicine' can be shown to work reliably, it ceases to become alternative. It just becomes medicine.
Derren Victor Brown
Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.
Carol Welch
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states
Carol Welch
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food
Hippocrates
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Plutarch
