Physician, heal thyself. [ Bible ]

Time is generally the best doctor. [ Ovid ]

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]

An old physician, and a young lawyer. [ Proverb ]

Who pays the physician does the cure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every man is a fool or a physician at forty. [ Proverb ]

A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal.
Is more than armies to the public weal. [ Pope ]

A disorderly patient makes a harsh physician. [ Publius Syrus ]

God heals, and the physician hath the thanks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Time is a great physician: he brings us death.

Time is the sovereign physician of all passions. [ Montaigne ]

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The purse of the patient often protracts his case. [ Zimmermann ]

St. Luke was a saint and a physician, yet is dead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish. [ G. D. Prentice ]

A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. [ Gutzkow ]

Kind words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit. [ Proverb ]

The disobedience of the patient makes the Physician seem cruel. [ Proverb ]

We have not only multiplied diseases, bnt we have made them more fatal. [ Rush ]

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. [ Zimmermann ]

The patient hath more need of the physician, than the physician of the patient. [ Proverb ]

A man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. [ Voltaire ]

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. [ Addison ]

The physician owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little money. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Guy Patin recommends to a patient to have no doctor but a horse, and no apothecary but an ass! [ Chesterfield ]

The words ending in ique do mock the physician, as hectique, paralitique, apoplectique, lethargique. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder is cured. [ Mme. de la Tour ]

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary. [ South ]

It is silliness to live when to live is a torment; and then we have a prescription to die when death is our physician. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician - he knows everything. [ Juv ]

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. [ George Eliot ]

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. [ Carlyle ]

Employment, which Galen calls nature's physician, is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. [ Burton ]

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit the earth covereth. [ Quarles ]

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him. [ Magendie ]

Friendship has the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. [ Earl of Clarendon ]

I think you might dispense with half your doctors, if you would only consult Doctor Sun more, and be more under the treatment of these great hydropathic doctors, the clouds! [ Beecher ]

Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over. [ Colton ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]