Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
Hunger is the best sauce.
We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Custard, n. A vile concoction produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Doctors are men who pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Quack, n. A murderer without a license.
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the diseases.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
Modern life is too often a mechanical oppression and liquor provides the only mechanical relief.
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
