Some of My Favorite Quotes

"Sound will be the future of medicine"
-Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), Father of Holistic Medicine

"Frequency generators have been around for decades. Royal Rife was using frequencies in the 1920's and 1930's to cure cancer. Today there are several machines using frequencies to balance out a person's energy thus eliminating the energetic frequency of the imbalance or disease. When the frequency of the disease you have has been neutralized, the disease goes away. These machines absolutely, 100 percent allow the body to virtually cure all diseases."
-Kevin Trudeau from "Natural Cures They Don't Want you to Know About"

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
-James Madison

"The doctor is to be feared more than the disease."
-Latin proverb

"Some drugs have been appropriately called 'wonder drugs'
in that one wonders what they'll do next."
-Annals of Internal Medicine

 "The doctor gave me six months, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me another six months."
-Walter Matthau

"The individual has the right of his own wisdom to choose methods for his well being and longevity.
This right is not to be taken from us."
-Arthur L. Kraslow, M.D.

"Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less,
into humans of which they know nothing."
-Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)

" . . . if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea,
it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.

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

"Some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. The obit columns are of quite an interest to me these days. I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all."
-Keith Richards, Rolling Stones Guitarist

"Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm."
-Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992

"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"I believe that more than 90% of modern medicine could disappear from the face of the earth
and the effect would be immediate and beneficial."
-Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic

"If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow,
the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow."
-Dr. Alexis Carrel, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research

"American medicine grows because its major functions are
economic and political, rather than therapeutic."
-John L. McKnight, Comparative Medicine

"Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint.
However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack."
-Richter cartoon caption

"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."
-Richard Nixon, U.S. President

The object of life is not to be on the side of majority,
but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
-Marcus Aurelius

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
-Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)

"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you,
whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
-Anton Chekhov

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
-Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."
-Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
-Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
-Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine

"Your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food."
-Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings,
and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
-Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen in Health

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth
the humble reasoning of a single individual."
-Galileo Galilei

"If I'd know I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."
-Anonymous

"Cure the disease, kill the patient."
-Francis Bacon

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."
-Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy.
It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
-Jackie Mason (1934 - )

"A healthy population means a dead pharmaceutical industry."
-Hans Reesch, Naked Express

"America has become a nation of junkies."
-Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic

"Pharmacology is the science of drugs. The name comes from an ancient Greek word for poison."

"Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb."
-Pythagoras (580 B.C.-500 B.C.)

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."
-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

"The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by experts . . . don't wait for the experts!"

"Life is tough, tougher if you're stupid."
-John Wayne

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know"
-Harry Truman (creator of the CIA)

..." man will cease to commit atrocities when he ceases to believe absurdities."
-Voltaire

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
-Groucho Marx

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."

"I am willing to acknowledge that people who are eager for reforms are apt to develop unpleasant traits, but it is only because they have to fight against opposition and ignorance. When they are dead and the world is reaping the reward of their bravery and constancy, it no longer laughs, but makes statues of them, and praises them, and thanks them in every way it can."
-From "A Country Doctor" by Sarah Orne Jewett

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith
from spiritual faith to great courage
from courage to liberty
from liberty to abundance
from abundance to selfishness
from selfishness to complacency
from complacency to apathy
from apathy to dependency
from dependency back to bondage."
-Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."
-Ayn Rand

As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know we don't know.
-Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
(The only one he missed was the unknown knowns,
things that are known that we don't know! -James)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-M. Gandhi

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
-Mark Twain

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."
-M. Gandhi

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
-Samuel Johnson

"May the farce be with you, but not for long."
-Michael Moore, Author and Producer of Fahrenheit 911

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-Albert Einstein

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.
It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes."
-Josef Stalin

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.

"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
-Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
-Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958

"You can always tell the pioneers, they're the ones with the arrows in their backs"

"He who tells the truth needs a fast horse."
-Dr. Robert C. Beck

"Your friends are God's way of apologizing for your relatives"

"2K or not 2K . . . Y is the Question."