Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha. Hal Boyle (0 - ____) 0 0
"""Those Modern Grandpas"" NY ""Journal-American,"" 31 Jul 1959."
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"Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped of the human drama. You, as doctors, will be in a position to see the human race stark naked - not only physically, but mentally and morally as well." Martin H. Fischer (1879 - 1962) scientist
"""Fischerisms,"" by Howard Fabing and Ray Marr."
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"No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ""Master of Arts"" and a ""Doctor of Philosophy"" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years." Helen Rowland (0 - ____) English-US writer
"A Guide to Men, ""Cymbals and Kettle-drums"" (1922)."
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. Martin H. Fischer (1879 - 1962) scientist
"""Fischerisms,"" by Howard Fabing and Ray Marr."
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"We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe." E. L. Doctorow (1931 - ____) US "author, editor"
"""American Anthem."""
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"My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies." W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946) US "actor, comedian"
"In ""Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"" ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone." Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960) Russian "novelist, poet"
"Doctor Zhivago,"" Ch. 9, Sect. 3"
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996) US "journalist, author, humorist"
"In ""1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,"" ed. Robert Byrne, 1988."
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"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers." Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000) US poet
"""Report From Part One,"" 1972."
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"I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me." Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) English physician
" Letter, 15 Jun 1860, to her Emily Davies; found at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WandersonE.htm."
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"LL.D. Letters indicating the degree ""Legumptionorum Doctor"", one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly ""LL.d."", and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) US "journalist, short-story writer"
"The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
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"It is a good idea to ""shop around"" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it." Dave Barry (1947 - ____) US "columnist, humorist"
From a collection of quotations found on the Internet.
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