Subject: Health (Page 16)

Have you ever noticed nobody has ever ordered a grapefruit the size of a tumor? … ever… there’s no reciprocity.


The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

My uncle died of Lou Sterrett's disease.

Be careful about reading health books for you may die of a misprint.

(1747 – 1803) German Jewish physician & lecturer on philosophy

The Resistance of Piles to Penetration

As I understand President Bush's Medicare plan, it provides for unlimited coverage for anyone over 72 whose parents can pass the physical.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian

I don’t think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor

Doctors told me that if my uncle had lived, he most likely would have been a vegetarian.

Drug Kingpin Amado Fuentes died from 9 hours of liposuction and plastic surgery – or, as it's commonly known here in Beverly Hills, natural causes.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

If your time ain’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Every time a doctor whispers in the hospital, next day there’s a funeral.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

Go to the gyropractor and get fixed?

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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic and so am I.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor

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

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

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

My Dad’s allergic to cotton; he has pills he can take but he can’t get them out of the bottle.

comedian

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

(1973 – ) American comedian

A hooker once told me she had a headache.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

(1952 – ) comedian

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

(1860 – 1904) Russian short-story writer, playwright & physician