I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.

Life preys upon life. This is biologys most fundamental fact.

There is no substitute for mothers milk.

Sweat silently. Lets have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

If a patient cannot clean his teeth no dentist can clean them for him.

Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugsthey are weak men. Only strong men are cured and they cure themselves.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

Education should be exercise it has become massage.

Since the Middle Ages progress in hygiene has been characterized by the conquest of stink.

Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.