Subject: Health (Page 18)

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

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

At home now, I have cough medicine on tap.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other.

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

Paradox: Two physicians.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he’s even worse than my brother-in-law.

(1893 – 1990) American psychiatrist

Mobile phone cancer is more common in the city; so is everything else, including sex, coffee and conversation.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better; but don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

I told my psychiatrist I keep thinking I’m ugly and he told me to lay on the couch… face down!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Minor Operation: One performed on someone else.

Psychiatrists: People with the same problems as anyone else, but with an accent.

I’d have to get better just to die.

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

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

God may choose to heal someone from cancer, yet that person still has a great deal of medical bills; the outstanding bills do not determine whether or not the patient has been healed by God.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

I had amnesia… once or twice.


Cold: An ailment cured in two weeks with a doctor’s care, and in fourteen days without it.

My shrink gives me 75 per cent off if I make believe I’m someone else.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

He once had a unbiblical hernia.

I used to be schizophrenic, but we're OK now.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist