Subject: Health (Page 13)

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Hypochondriac: One who enjoys poor health, then complains of feeling better.

My problem, uh, is behind me now.

(1953 – ) American baseball player

Venereal Disease: Germs of endearment.

X-Ray: A diagnostic tool used to detect existing cancerous growths and create new ones for future examinations to reveal.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them… well, it's killing me!

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places; he told me to quit going to those places.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

I suffer from a deviant septum.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four, unless there were three other people.

(1915 – 1985) stage & film actor & director

It’s only the mercy of the Lord I ain’t had a stroke already – and a coronary trombonus in the bargain.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The biggest difference between the psychiatrist and the patient is that the psychiatrist has learned how to live with it.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Health food makes me sick.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

A cure for agoraphobics is just around the corner.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

Internship: A sleepless ordeal imposed on young M.D.’s for the purpose of weeding out the weak and infirm among them, and eroding the health of the survivors sufficiently to ensure better empathy in the years to come.

A woman doctor is only good for women's problems… like your groinocology.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)