I am a Doctor. A.B.†M.A.†PH.D.†ABMAPHID!†a wasting disease of the frontal lobes.

-Albee, Edward Franklin, III
  Spoken by a college professor. Who's  Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

-Anonymous
Proverb.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

-Barach, Alvan Leroy
  In the Journal of the American Medical  Association, vol.181, p.393.

You must take off your clothes for the doctor And stand as straight as a pin, His hand of stone on your white breastbone Where the bullets all go in.

-Causley, Charles
  'Recruiting Drive'.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.

-Dryden,John
  Epistle,'To my honoured kinsman  John Driden', l.92^5.

The doctor found, when she was dead, Her last disorder mortal.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  'Elegy on Mrs Mary Blaize'.

His eyesight has always been weak, a sort of film over the eyes. A doctor advised him not to read, but he said, 'Then I should be ignorant', and he refused an operation because there was a thousandth chance he might go blind and so remain ignorant.

-Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta ne¤  e Persse
  Of Sean O'Casey.  Journal entry, 8  Jun.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

-James, Alice
  Diary entry, 27 Sep.

Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.3.

O master doctor, he is past recovery; A lethargy hath seized him.

-Massinger, Philip
  The Roman  Actor, act 2, sc.1.

The Doctorissaidalsotohaveinventedanextraordinary weapon which will make war less brutal. It is described as a very powerful liquid which rots braces at a distance of a mile.

-Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
  'Bracerot'.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be thanthisö'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.It would not do for a policeman.

-Nightingale, Florence
  Notes on Nursing.

Doctor, doctor, what do you say,!

-Roth, Philip Milton
LET'S PUT THE ID BACK IN YID1969  Portnoy's Complaint,'Cunt Crazy'.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Misalliance, preface.

I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a moböwould have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thingöwalked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'Yes,'said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then sayaloud: 'I thank God,Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.' He answered,'I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.'

-Stanley, Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands
  How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa.

   Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.

Yas |¤ , enfermos, ojo alerta, y a ning u¤ n me¤  dico admitan; mueran de gorra, sin dar un real a la medicina. Be careful then, patients, and don't accept any doctor; die for free and do not give a single coin to medicine.

-Valle y Caviedes,Juan del
  Diente del Parnaso ('Parnassus' Tooth'),'Pro¤  logo al que leyere este tratado'.

The Governer was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.3, stanza 3.

My doctor forbids me to play, unless I win.

-Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys
Of croquet. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).