Surgeon Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old surgeon quotes, surgeon sayings, and surgeon proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit. David Mitchell
I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon. Abraham Verghese
Ive been a surgeon and a consultant for twenty years; and Ive never known a general practitioner right in his diagnosis yet. Bring them a perfectly simple case. George Bernard Shaw
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? . . . . Manual labour. George Bernard Shaw
Sitting in a surgeon's world, a surgeon's will A surgeon's girl with me Standing on a river bed, where weeds can be I'm on my knee, to you Well, I've seen you in Wire
Oh, I know you don't believe it But I'crem a help you to see it Incredible, incredible Your body's so perfect Boyz II Men
When it comes to love I'm like a surgeon I'ma true techtician I'ma make your body better when we get in the right position I'm like a surgeon I'ma make yo body jump Everytime my body pumps (uh huh uh huh) Ciara
Oh, an artery is not a vein No history can tell My skeleton won't tell Why some like moths draw To a surgeon's drill And blood shot hits to marrow Mark Lanegan