"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
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"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."
"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."
"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
"I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel."
"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
"I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force."
"The funniest things are the forbidden."
"We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer."
"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."
"The best actors do not let the wheels show."
"One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other."
"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find."
"The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership."
"Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence."
"Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked."
"Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people."
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy."