"The true aim of medicine is not..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.”

“What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.”

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

“A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.”

“I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.”

“Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.”

“Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.”

“I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”

“The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.”