Doctors Quotes

In illness the physician is a father; in convalescence a friend; when health is restored, he is a guardian.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

A doctor should have a falcon’s eye, a girl’s hand, and a lion’s heart.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans.

No man is a good physician who has never been sick.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A young doctor makes a humpy graveyard.

I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life […]