Quotes from Martin H. Fischer

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.

Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you — that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient.

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.

The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button.

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.

If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.

Life goes faster on protein.

There is no substitute for mother's milk.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.