Subject: Health (Page 15)

We drink to one another’s health, and spoil our own.

(1859 – 1927) English writer

This weekend I pulled a muscle in my cheeks trying to smile.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Only adults have difficulty with child-proof bottles.

As I understand President Bush's Medicare plan, it provides for unlimited coverage for anyone over 72 whose parents can pass the physical.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg… but leukemia is worse still.

English former football player & manager

There are only two things a child will share willingly – communicable diseases and his mother’s age.

(1903 – 1998) American pediatrician & author

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

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

I’m so frightened of disease that it’s to the point I won’t have sex with someone… unless they say… you know… “Okay.”

(1970 – ) American comedian, writer & actress

Do you think that suppository is gonna be safe from me there, Edith?

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

So there was this dyslexic guy who walked into a bra.

I’ve just learned about his illness; let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

Just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome, it started off badly but by the end I really liked it.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter

The longer I practice medicine the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

Hypochondria is the one disease I haven’t got.

(1951 – ) English television writer

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he’s even worse than my brother-in-law.

(1893 – 1990) American psychiatrist

A man walked into the doctor’s; he said, ‘I’ve hurt my arm in several places.' … The doctor said, ‘well don’t go there any more.'

(1921 – 1984) British comedian & magician