Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

—Jewish Proverb

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

—Jewish Proverb

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall—but don't rush to pick him up either.

—Jewish Proverb

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

—Jewish Proverb

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

—Jewish Proverb

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

—Alice James

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

—Dave Barry

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

—Henny Youngman