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

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Parents
  • Style
  • Inspired

• 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

• 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

• 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 wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Good
  • She
  • Wife

• Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Wishes
  • Medicine
  • Seasons

• Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Medicine
  • Judgement
  • Noble

• The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Earth
  • Wise
  • Lord

• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Type
  • Scream

• I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Stars
  • Two

• For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Comedy
  • Moments
  • Feelings

• Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Away

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Medicine
  • Taste
  • Prescription