Subject: Health (Page 21)

Hippocritical oath.

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

Osteopath: A man who works his fingers to your bones.

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


Chiropodist: A man who makes money hand over foot.

Could I get gangroon out of that?

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

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

Canadian hockey goaltender

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

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them… well, it's killing me!

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

Down Home Gynecology

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

Please excuse Timmy from school Friday. He has very loose vowels.

I thought AAA was an organization for people who are really bad alcoholics.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the D.T.'s begin.

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

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 gave my girlfriend something she didn’t expect for Valentine’s Day… chlamydia.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

My doctor tells me I got a communications disease.

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

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

(1921 – 2000) comedian, television host, musician, actor & writer

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Life is a terminal disease.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer