Subject: Health (Page 12)

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Both of my children had the chicken pops when they were young.

How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, "Relax… you are not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients, " but another kept reminding me, "Howard, you are a veterinarian."

Virus: A Latin medical term meaning, “Your guess is as good as mine.”

I got a cousin who's a psychotic with low self-esteem; he only wants to assassinate the vice president.

television writer, producer & director

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I told my doctor I wanna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Probably a torn filament right there in the kneecap.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

A rule of thumb in the matter of medical advice is to take everything any doctor says with a grain of aspirin.


Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married – the other half because they're not.

(1905 –1998) American author

Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? … because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken.

That guy ain’t been the same since he had that vasexomy.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.

Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

A hooker once told me she had a headache.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator