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Doctor's faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about earth, wealth, money, man, americans

Doctors make the worst patients.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Doctors are the signposts to heaven.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Doctor Luther's shoes do not fit every parish priest.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings German about conscience, body

Doctors must be old and lawyers must be young.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Doctors learn on their patients.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Doctors and gravediggers are partners.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

The best doctor prevents illness, an average doctor visits when the illness is imminent, and the unskilled doctor treats your present illness.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about present

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A doctor and a clown know more than a doctor alone.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about clowns

If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors--Rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about diets, rest

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Proverbs and old sayings British about day, old, olderness

If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about saints

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Proverbs and old sayings French about old, olderness

Unless God does it, what can a doctor do?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about god

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about intelligence, contentment