Top 72 Take Medicine Quotes
#1. I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. It was dangerous recreation, but it was pleasanter than traveling in Syria.
Mark Twain
#2. The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
#4. I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
Teri Garr
#5. It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.
Jennifer Lawrence
#6. Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C.S. Lewis
#7. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
#8. You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
John Ruskin
#9. Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
Nell Carter
#10. Any chemical, whether is comes from the root of a tree or the shelves of your medicine cabinet, can cause serious harm. It depends how much you take. That is why one of the fundamental tenets of medicine holds that the dose makes the poison.
Michael Specter
#11. Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.
Jim Fergus
#12. I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.
John Cameron
#13. Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive
and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.
Thomas Sowell
#14. If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.
Loretta Chase
#15. But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
Paul Farmer
#16. The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna
#17. When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
Shaquille O'Neal
#18. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Hippocrates
#19. Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.
Jim DeMint
#20. The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
Hippocrates
#21. A good doctor. He would not let her take pills. Try each day just to laugh a little bit, it's a good medicine, he said. Pills were a second option. I should have taken them. No. Better off to try laughing. Die laughing.
Colum McCann
#22. Think of exercise as medicine and take your daily prescription.
Steven Magee
#23. That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
Aasif Mandvi
#24. Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?
Tryon Edwards
#25. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.
Bruce Lee
#26. From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
Lynn Collins
#27. Here we don't drink coffee, we 'take' it, as a medicine," echoed his business partner, Luigi Solito. "To me, the philosophy of the suspended coffee is that you are happy today, and you give a coffee to the world, as a present.
Anonymous
#28. I would say that we have to explore and find ways to make our game a better game and take care of our players in whatever way possible. Regardless of what other stigmas might be involved, we have to do this because the world of medicine is doing this.
Pete Carroll
#29. Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
#30. Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine ...
Mao Zedong
#31. When we take on responsibility for others, or make them wrong so we can feel right, we get in the way of spirit.
Heidi DuPree
#32. I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.
Mehmet Oz
#33. Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.
Rick Riordan
#34. Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
William Shakespeare
#35. Yes ... Truth Is: life hurts but allow God to be your dose of Curable medicine. He will help you take your pain away
Timothy Pina
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#36. Best to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his medicine. Cards on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on.
Terry Pratchett
#37. You can't go back. What's done is done. Unrequited love is never easy. Time heals all wounds. I kept repeating such cliches to myself, hoping that they, like medicine, would take away the sting.
They didn't.
Alice J. Wisler
#38. I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.
Bobby Fischer
#39. Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.
Karen Rose
#40. You're the fall guy, Winch. You're the guy they come to when no one else will stand up and take their medicine. And they come to you because you never make them stand up and take it.
Liz Reinhardt
#41. Calling holistic medicine "alternative medicine" is no longer appropriate. The best approach now is "integrated medicine" in which we take the best of both worlds.
Candess M. Campbell
#42. Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.
Ami Bera
#43. At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse
Samuel Shem
#44. Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.
Orson Scott Card
#45. All you have to do is send a message or somehow establish communication between the mind and body of the sick person. The mind should be in peace, so that the body can do the job. That's all the cure is. The body cures itself. Medicine allows it to get into that space where healing can take place.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#46. Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.
Michael Specter
#47. When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.
Candess M. Campbell
#48. I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.
Leslie Jones
#49. We're multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and crime - or even innovating in government and medicine - must take generations.
Shane Snow
#50. He had a theory that bedroom Amharic and bedside Amharic were really the same thing: Please lie down. Take off your shirt. Open your mouth. Take a deep breath ... The language of love was the same as the language of medicine.
Abraham Verghese
#51. I had this coming. I just have to take my medicine. I think I'll spend the weekend brooding about what a shitty friend I am and mourning the loss of the friendship. I might have Ben & Jerry over to keep me company. Or maybe Ernest and Julio Gallo."
"Hey, no threesomes unless I get to watch.
Amelia C. Gormley
#52. If only sugar were medicine! I should take it every day.
Carlo Collodi
#53. It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.
Robert Marion
#54. Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor."
Jim Gaffigan
#55. One reason we would use plant medicine: to be able to take care of the body as a whole. Another reason is that it is accessible, approachable, and requires few invasive methods.
Karen Rose
#57. When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.
Ron Kaufman
#58. No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#59. Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig
#60. At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.
Ray Nagin
#61. When he didn't want to take his medicine, I spooned it into his mouth, then blew in his face, which causes a person to reflexively swallow.
Anna Banks
#62. I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.
Vincent Gallo
#63. Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.
Alexi Giannoulias
#64. I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
Harold E. Varmus
#65. Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
Leroy Hood
#66. Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
Napoleon Bonaparte
#67. 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
#68. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.
Lee Kuan Yew
#69. God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh.
Jerry Savelle
#70. Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
Magic Johnson
#72. The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.
Paul Di Filippo
