Subject: Health (Page 16)

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

I am so pro-swine flu, I want it; we need a plague… it’s got to happen; don’t be afraid, it’s only going to kill the weak.

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian

I'm beginning to have morning sickness… I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Diaphragm: A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

I have Bright's Disease… and he has mine.

(1904 – 1979) Jewish-American humorist, author & screenwriter

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Diagnosis: A physician’s forecast of the disease by the patient’s pulse and purse.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Hypochondriac: Someone who enjoys bad health.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

… having too much collateral in your blood.

He is a servant of humanity… who had done really brilliant work in isolating fees.

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

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

(1963 – ) American stand-up comedian

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.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

comedian

I’ve just learned about his illness; let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

We are the sort of people who make health insurance popular.

Canadian hockey goaltender

“Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” … and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’… and the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.

(1972 – ) Irish comedian & television presenter

The only way I can ever hear heavy breathing from my husband's side of the bed is when he's having an asthma attack.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director