Authors:

Antibiotics Quotes

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

Alicia Silverstone
Allergies, Aspirin, Antibiotics

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Andrew Weil
Giving, Stronger, Antibiotics
Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

Bonnie Bassler
War, Quality, Antibiotics

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

Thomas Szasz
Work, Medical Science, Antibiotics
Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Andrew Weil
Giving, Stronger, Antibiotics
Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.

Stephen Colbert
Laughter, Medicine, Antibiotics
"Stephen Colbert on why Stephen Colbert is awesome". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 11, 2007.

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Randy Pausch
Apology, Antibiotics, Salt
"The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

William A. Dembski
Antibiotics, Bacteria, Gains

We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

Bill Gates
Vaccines, Miracle, Antibiotics
Source: www.spiegel.de

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

Carre Otis
Doctors, Flu, Antibiotics
"A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Use, Antibiotics, Health Professionals
"Eating animals is making us sick" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

You May Also Like: