Waiting Is Good

I told you I was sick. - B.P. Roberts

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Christopher Walken

Sickness soaks the purse. - International Proverb

Grief is itself a medicine. - William Cowper

Gangrene: To be feeling sick - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Time and tide wait for no man. - Geoffrey Chaucer

No doctor is better than three. - German Proverb

Dyspupsia: Being sick as a dog. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin

Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle. - David McCord

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying - dead. - Oscar Wilde

False Doctrine: Giving people the wrong medicine - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. - Michael Moore

My doctor tells me I got a communications disease. - Archie Bunker

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck

The wish for healing has always been half of health. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. - Larry McMurtry

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - Plato

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. - Chinese Proverb

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. - Robert Burton

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy. - Amy Sedaris

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. - Italian Proverb

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. - Norman Cousins

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. - Martin H. Fischer

I'm so ugly my mother had morning sickness - AFTER I was born. - Rodney Dangerfield

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything. - Radhika Apte

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Never let success get to your head. Never let failure get to your health. - Unknown

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Malachy McCourt

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. - Val Saintsbury

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. - Valerie Jarrett

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. - Cicero

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Health is like money - we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. - Josh Billings

I'm not sick, I'm twisted. Sick makes it sound like there's a cure! - Unknown

A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. - Francis O'Walsh

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. - R Buckminster Fuller

Grave: A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late. - Seth Godin

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman

The latest thing in psychiatry is group therapy. Instead of couches, they use bunk beds. - Henny Youngman

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. - Martin H. Fischer

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. - Joyce Meyer

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. - Bono

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles

Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them? - Randy K. Milholland

A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Jose L Borges

Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. - James Bryce

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. - George Eilot

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." - Lauren Bacall

When I was born the Doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" - Rodney Dangerfield

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake! - Martin H. Fischer

My husband is so good at home repairs that they have a special VIP area for him in the emergency room. - Unknown

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. - Walter Matthau

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die. - Mark Batterson

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? - Paul Harvey

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, Just wait. - Judy Tenuta

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. - Mark Hyman

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - Alexander Pope

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. - Joe E. Lewis

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. - Julia Child

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. - Rev. Billy Graham

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan

There are two kinds of people in one's life - people whom one keeps waiting, and the people for whom one waits. - Unknown

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - WC Fields

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler

The public blabbers about preventive medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. - Martin H. Fischer

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. - Zig Ziglar

I've got a great doctor. He gave a guy six months to live. They couldn't pay his bill so he gave him another six months. - Henny Youngman

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. - Martin H. Fischer

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. - Alain

Health is the finest possession. Contentment is the ultimate wealth. Trustworthy people are the best relatives. Unbinding is the supreme ease. - Buddha

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. - Gerald F Lieberman

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes. - Dick Dale

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. - William Osler