Top 100 Medicine Life Quotes
#1. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
William Shakespeare
#2. It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.
James Harpole
#3. Laughter IS the BEST medicine! It's FREE! You can overdose on it! It helps you embrace the insanities of life! It reduces stress, heals your body and relieves pain! It fights disease and cancer and strengthens the immune system! It eases your mind, it protects your heart and soothes your soul!
Tanya Masse
#4. Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.
Gary Hopkins
#5. My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
Zach Braff
#6. What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.
Kim Van Alkemade
#7. Live for those moments! They keep you alive! There's no better medicine than finding out that you're wrong.
Terry Pratchett
#8. There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.
Dr. Sherwin Nuland
#9. You've never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry," Bob said. "Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too.
Jim Butcher
#10. You cannot bargain with me. My heart is the clock. Find medicine before it ticks dry, and buy your friend's life. Fail and his corpse is all you will find here.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#11. What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
Robert Kennedy
#12. The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. Life in These United States. Laughter Is the Best Medicine.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.
Norman Mailer
#15. From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
William James
#16. We do a lot of science on the space station. Over the course of the year, there'll be 400 to 500 different investigations in all different kinds of disciplines. Some are related to improving life on earth in material science, physics, combustion science, earth sciences, medicine.
Scott Kelly
#17. Tigerclaw stared in disbelief. Was the life of his son dependent on an ancient medicine cat and an arrogant kittypet?
Erin Hunter
#18. When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.
Peace Pilgrim
#19. We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.
George W. Bush
#21. When stress is the disease, then forgiveness and laughter are the medicine.
Debasish Mridha
#22. I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#23. ...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...
Travis Culliton
#24. A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.
Paul Davies
#25. Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
Anthony Liccione
#26. My big mantra is 'food is medicine,' so I really love being able to talk about how you can make food your medicine, how you can make food be the thing that hopefully allows you to live a longer, happier, healthier life.
Travis Lane Stork
#27. Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
Bella Bathurst
#28. Doctors said 'go home and enjoy what little is left of your life'. He recovered.
Richard M. Schulze
#30. Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
Orison Swett Marden
#31. Music is like medicine. It can bring relief to the aches and stressful situations that life brings. We live in a world of music. There is sound and rhythm everywhere we go!
Ellen J. Barrier
#32. Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.
Samuel Shem
#33. 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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#34. I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.
Juanita Ray
#35. To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
William Osler
#36. The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was cherished as a sacrosanct American right -- everywhere, that is, but on the archipelago of Indian life.
Timothy Egan
#37. Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine.
Sri Chinmoy
#38. Kindness and compassion can heal those wounds that medicine can't heal.
Debasish Mridha
#39. In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
C. Everett Koop
#40. The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#41. The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#42. When fear is the disease, faith and confidences are the medicine.
Debasish Mridha
#43. My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.
Rick Smolan
#44. But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
Erich Fromm
#45. Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
Sandra Cisneros
#46. What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?
Sam Keen
#47. The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
#48. But what does the "greatest good" mean when it comes to medicine? Is it the number of lives saved? Years of life saved? Best "quality" years of life saved? Or something else?
Sheri Fink
#49. The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors
how we exercise, what we eat
is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.
Michael Stein
#50. How does immorality slip into a person's life who is experiencing great emotional pain? It does so in the form of relief. The adversary disguises it to look good and justified in the early stages. By the time it is seen as bad medicine, it is well into the system of the patient.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#51. When we experience the loss of our outer life, the way to our inner light is cleared.
Heidi DuPree
#52. He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
Graham Greene
#53. I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.
Gwethalyn Graham
#54. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.
Denzel Washington
#55. Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.
Ken Jeong
#56. After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.
Samuel Shem
#58. I got hit in the fucking head with the medicine ball.
Adele Levine
#59. In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it. Patients
Atul Gawande
#60. Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner
#61. I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus
#63. Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.
Pamela Grim
#64. The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Abraham Verghese
#66. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
Craig Venter
#68. Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.
Leon Chaitow
#69. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#70. They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk
#71. You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.
Marcia Angell
#72. There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
Grenville Kleiser
#73. Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#74. You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them.
Rick Cochran
#75. I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
Chico Hamilton
#76. While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.
Pope Francis
#77. Your inner landscape determines your outer life.
Heidi DuPree
#78. Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan
#80. She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
Abraham Verghese
#81. For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?
Theresa Brown
#82. The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
William J. Mayo
#83. Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!
Wilferd Peterson
#84. Medicine: Your money and your life!
Karl Kraus
#85. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.
Ann Wigmore
#86. It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you to the idea of life, to survival, then it has failed utterly.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#87. The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
Arthur Middleton
#88. Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.
Steve Maraboli
#89. The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.
Franz Alexander
#90. I didn't study medicine to watch people die. -Kira
Dan Wells
#91. Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.
Ian O'Doherty
#92. I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.
David Hasselhoff
#93. Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
Abraham Verghese
#94. The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!
Joyce Meyer
#95. Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.
B. J. Palmer
#96. Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.
Miya Yamanouchi
#97. Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.
Sam Kean
#98. The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense tomorrow.
Adolf Meyer
#99. Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!
Mehek Bassi
#100. According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us.
Christiane Northrup
