Subject: Health

Psychiatrist: A head coach.

Just imagine what he’ll be like when senility kicks in… if it hasn’t already.

English former football player & manager

Only have a nervous breakdown if you’ve got loads of money, and then you can really enjoy it.

(1955 – ) English composer, singer, songwriter & producer

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in; filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

(1664 – 1721) English poet & diplomat

There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.

(1849 – 1919) Canadian physician

I swam in the dead sea when it was only critically ill.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

There would never be any public agreement among doctors if they did not agree to agree on the main point of the doctor being always on the right.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

You never have the right number of pills left on the last day of a prescription.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.

(1924 – 2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician & chef

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Doctor: Someone who practices medicine but charges as if he knew.

My health is good; it’s my age that’s bad.

(1903 – 1992) country music singer, fiddler & promoter

You know, the only difference between me and a surgeon or a pediatrician is that when I approach a couple with a child and say, ‘I’d like to keep him for a few days and do some bloodwork,’ it’s considered inappropriate.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

If you don’t have a bad back by the time you’re 60, then you haven’t done anything in your life.

baseball manager

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

My doctor is wonderful; once, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

(1918 – 2007) American entertainer, actor & television host

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host