Subject: Health (Page 17)

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

She had a seashore disorder.

After looking at the bill for my operation, I understand why doctors wear masks in the operating room.

He was recently diagnosed with prostrate cancer.

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

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time — I think I’ve forgotten this before.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The most beautiful words in the English language are not “I love you,” but … “benign.”

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

… one says to the other her mum had a cyst on on her aviary.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergeres and looks at the audience.

(1913 – 1995) British Anglican Bishop

We may lay down a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

Doctors, dentists, and lawyers are only on time for appointments when you’re not.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

I shouldn’t tell jokes about my wife. She’s attached to a machine that keeps her alive… the refrigerator.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

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

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.


(1608 – 1661) English churchman & historian

I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian