Quotes by Martin H. Fischer
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
Fischer, Martin H.
A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.
Fischer, Martin H.
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Fischer, Martin H.
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.
Fischer, Martin H.
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems.
Fischer, Martin H.
Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms.
Fischer, Martin H.
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.
Fischer, Martin H.
Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
Fischer, Martin H.
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
Fischer, Martin H.
We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.
Fischer, Martin H.
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Fischer, Martin H.
Evolution is individual - devolution is collective.
Fischer, Martin H.
We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.
Fischer, Martin H.
God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.
Fischer, Martin H.
There is no substitute for mother's milk.
Fischer, Martin H.
Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Fischer, Martin H.
The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
Fischer, Martin H.
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
Fischer, Martin H.
Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.
Fischer, Martin H.
Life goes faster on protein.
Fischer, Martin H.
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.
Fischer, Martin H.
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
Fischer, Martin H.
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community.
Fischer, Martin H.
The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman.
Fischer, Martin H.
Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
Fischer, Martin H.
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
Fischer, Martin H.
Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?
Fischer, Martin H.
Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
Fischer, Martin H.
The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
Fischer, Martin H.
The world is your school.
Fischer, Martin H.
Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
Fischer, Martin H.
Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.
Fischer, Martin H.
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient.
Fischer, Martin H.
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
Fischer, Martin H.
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
Fischer, Martin H.
Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.
Fischer, Martin H.
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Fischer, Martin H.
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!
Fischer, Martin H.
Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
Fischer, Martin H.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Fischer, Martin H.