Subject: Health (Page 23)

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

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

Bill Walton is incredible; if you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

American basketball coach

[to the doctor] How about what I done for you in the bottle there? Ya know, the eulogy test.

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

The psychiatrist’s office is where you say what you think and be told what you mean.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

(1962 – ) American stand-up comedian, writer, actor & radio host

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

(1875 – 1965) German/French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician & medical missionary

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander III (356 – 323 BC) King of Macedon

What do you mean, heart attack? … You’ve got to have a heart before you can have an attack.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

Only have a nervous breakdown if you’ve got loads of money, and then you can really enjoy it.

(1955 – ) English composer, singer, songwriter & producer

Beware of the physician who is great at getting out of trouble.

If it tastes good, you can't have it; if it tastes awful, you'd better clean your plate.

“Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” … and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’… and the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.

(1972 – ) Irish comedian & television presenter

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

Go to the gyropractor and get fixed?

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

(1844 – 1900) German philosopher

”I think therefore I am.” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

(1929 – ) Czech writer

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth-decay in His divine system of creation?

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright

My cholesterol count has a comma.

(1964 – 2014) American actor, Broadway performer & stand-up comedian

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.