Subject: Health (Page 6)

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

Health food makes me sick.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

I'm the boy in the bubble without the bubble.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

At home now, I have cough medicine on tap.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

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

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o’clock in the morning.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first; by the second day you're off it.

(1924 – 2003) American comedian & actor

Cold: An ailment cured in two weeks with a doctor’s care, and in fourteen days without it.

The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.

I have an inferiority complex, it’s just not a very good one.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Last week I told my psychiatrist, “I keep thinking about suicide,” and he told me from now on I have to pay in advance.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I had amnesia… once or twice.


There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

(1932 – 1963) novelist & poet

I told my dentist I want a tooth to match the others; he gave me one with four cavities.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Mobile phone cancer is more common in the city; so is everything else, including sex, coffee and conversation.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

I go to a woman dentist… it a relief to be told to open my mouth instead of shut it.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer