Subject: Health (Page 5)

Hippocritical oath.

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

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot; finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

I told him he’d have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call; the guy said, “Did I call you or did you call me?”

comedian

Whenever I’m about to have sex with a girl, I play it smart and just automatically assume she has herpes; because that way I don’t have to tell her about my herpes.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident… herpes.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.

(1924 – 2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician & chef

You never have the right number of pills left on the last day of a prescription.

When I was a kid I used to play doctor with this little girl in my neighborhood and one time we got caught… luckily, it was a Wednesday and we were just playing golf.

comedian

I thought AAA was an organization for people who are really bad alcoholics.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

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

(1859 – 1927) English writer

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look… twins!"

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Don’t knock coronaries… they’re all we women have got to guarantee us a prosperous and exciting middle age.

(1932 – 2000) English author & academic

Germs attack people where they're weakest – which is why there are so many head colds.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

(1963 – ) American stand-up comedian

It’s stressful being a hypochondriac. In my home I have a walk-in medicine chest.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergeres and looks at the audience.

(1913 – 1995) British Anglican Bishop

Only adults have difficulty with child-proof bottles.