Quotes on Medication

Some griefs are medicinable.
- William Shakespeare, from Cymbeline

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- William Osler

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
- Lord Byron

Medicine can cure only curable diseases.
- Chinese proverb

Writing prescriptions is easy, but understanding people is hard.
- Franz Kafka, from The Country Doctor

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so poweful as expectation of something tommorrow.
- Orison S. Marden

Use all new medicines while they still work.
- William Osler

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Martin Henry Fischer

There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.
- William Osler