Subject: Health (Page 24)

Vaccination: An ouch of prevention.

Psychiatrist: A head coach.

Hypochondriac: One who can’t leave well-enough alone.

Vagina?… that sounds like something you call in sick with.

American comedian & television host

Probably a torn filament right there in the kneecap.

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

Don't be hollerin' at him, will ya, you'll give him a mental sterosis.

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

He once had a unbiblical hernia.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities, hypochondria has always seemed to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

(1953 – 2001) British journalist & broadcaster

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

(1875 – 1965) German/French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician & medical missionary

I go to a woman dentist… it a relief to be told to open my mouth instead of shut it.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast; turned out to be a trick knee.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Sometimes I think I tore all the ligaments in my head.

cartoon character, Peanuts (Charles Schulz, 1922 – 2000) creator & cartoonist

If I had known the difference between the words 'antidote' and 'anecdote,' one of my good friends would still be living.

comedian

… expensive care

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

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work… medicine.

(1975 – ) Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician & director

I was in analysis for years and nothing happened. My poor analyst got so frustrated, the guy finally put in a salad bar.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I quit because I was in the hospital and I realized that I truly believed that laughter was the best medicine, but it turns out penicillin works a hell of a lot better.

(1971 – ) American comedian, actor, television host & former physician

I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called ‘the flu.’

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Some hospitals are so crowded that the only way you can get in is by accident.


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.