Evan Esar Quotes

The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

Evan Esar

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• No Money

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• My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Parents
  • Style
  • Inspired

• I don't have lavish taste.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Taste
  • Lavish

• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Dying
  • Try
  • Medicine

• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Office
  • Medicine
  • Alchemy

• I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Happy
  • Fact

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • High
  • Engineering

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • See
  • Taste

• There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Bad
  • Taste
  • Italy

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• It's frightening to think with modern medicine and all the technique available to them they can't really help you. In the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays, they are all specialists. Everyone's becoming better and better at less and less. Eventually someone's going to be superb, at nothing.

  

  Kenneth Williams
  • Medicine
  • Specialists
  • Superb

• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  

  Lillian Russell
  • Air
  • Body
  • Blow

• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Read

• Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Today
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering

• I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Music
  • Taste
  • Codfish

• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Words
  • Support
  • Trouble

• For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Taste
  • Convey
  • Impeccable

• My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Medicine
  • Reach

• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Create
  • Musician
  • Taste

• It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Littles
  • Bed
  • Prominent

• Maybe I am just a jerk.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Jerk

• If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Medicine
  • Taste
  • Prescription