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. . . DISHONESTY see: "DECEPTION" see: "IMMORALITY" If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter and generally less behind it than before it. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher]. Quoted in John Bate _A Cyclopaedia Of Illustrations Of Moral And Religious Truths_ [1865]. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. The narrator (Mr. Sampson), in _Hunted Down_, ch. 2, "New York Ledger" [1859]; repr. in _All the Year Round_ [1860]. Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure. --Nella Larsen (1893—1964) American novelist. _Quicksand_ [1928] If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. In 1858 when debating Stephen Douglas, as quoted in _U.S. News & World Report_, vol. 144 [2008]. He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. --Ogden Nash (1902—1971) American writer of humorous poetry. In _The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash_ [1945]. It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. --Samuel Richardson (1689—1761) English novelist. _A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments..._ [1755] ----- skulduggery, also skullduggery [skul-DUG-uh-ree], noun: Devious, dishonest, or unscrupulous behavior or activity.  . . see: "UNHAPPINESS" for related links And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope. --Robert Frost (1874—1963) American poet. "The Death of the Hired Man" [1914] Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania. --Dorothy Parker (1893—1967) American critic and humorist. "Comment" [1937] . . see: "OPINION" see: "QUARRELING" see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. --Jacob Bronowski (1908—1974) Polish-born mathematician and humanist. Speech at MIT, Cambridge, MA [19 March 1953]. Whether history will judge this war [Vietnam] to be different or not, we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: a government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way. This we can say: that what is essential in a free society is that there should be an atmosphere where those who wish to dissent and even to demonstrate can do so without fear of recrimination or vilification. --Henry Steele Commager (1902—1998) American historian. _Freedom and Order_ [1966] - Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, US President [1953—1961]. In a speech at the Columbia University Bicentennial dinner [31 May 1954]. and see: We must not confuse dissent with disloyaty. --Edward R. Murrow [Egbert Roscoe Murrow] (1908—1965) American broadcaster and journalist. Report on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, "See It Now" (TV series), [7 March 1954]. - Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. --Robert H. Jackson (1892—1954) U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1941—1954] Chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. Opinion, "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette" [1943]. - These murderous wild beasts of our otherwise blessed republic should be given a bottle of water and a pint of meal and shoved out into the ocean on a raft, when the wind is blowing seaward. --Speaker in California, 1919, on the best way to deal with dissenters; in Nelson Van Valen _Pacific Historical Review_ v. 12 [1953] p. 49. . . see: "BETRAYAL" see: "DECEPTION" see: "SUSPICION" see: "TREACHERY" see: "TRUST" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links Never trust a friend who deserts you [in] a pinch. --Æsop (c.620 B.C.-c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Æsop's Fables_ "The Two Fellows and the Bear," tr. Joseph Jacobs [1894] A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. --Taylor Caldwell [Janet Taylor Caldwell] (1900—1985) American novelist born in England; she also wrote under the pseudonym of Max Reiner. _The Devil's Advocate_ [1952] There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880) American clergyman and author. _Humanity in the City_ [1854] What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880) English novelist. _Middlemarch_, bk. 8, ch. 44 [1871] Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you. --Henry Fielding (1707—1754) English novelist and dramatist. _Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild_, bk. 3, ch. 4 [1743] The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Vicar of Wakefield_ [1766] It is better. . . to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In "The Rambler" (English journal), #79, [18 December 1750]. - Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_, # 32 [1678] It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] - - Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. _Aphorisms on Man_ [2nd ed., 1789] Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. Quoted in _The New Era_, vol II, no. 7 [May 1872]. - Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Thus Spake Zarathustra_, pt. II, ch. 29 [1892] [On The Reign of Terror 1793-94:] The Terror isolated and stupefied the deputies just as it did ordinary citizens. On entering the Assembly each member, full of distrust, watched his words and actions, lest a crime be made out of them. And indeed everything mattered: where you sat, a gesture, a look, a murmur or a smile. --Antoine Claire Thibaudeau (1765—1854) French politician. Distrust any enterprise that require new clothes. --Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_, ch. I [1854] . . There can not a greater judgment befall a country than such a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers and more averse to one another than if they were actually two different nations. --Joseph Addison (1672—1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _The Spectator_ [24 July 1711] We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Attributed remark at signing of the Declaration of Independence [4 July 1776]. A house divided against itself cannot stand. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. "House Divided" speech in the Lincoln-Douglas debate, Springfield, Illinois [16 June 1858]. . . see: "REJECTION" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you. --Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian novelist and poet. Quoted in "Time" [19 March 1973]. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. --attributed to Jim Backus (1913-1989) American actor [My wife's] counsel had advised her to abandon the request for rehabilitative alimony and to seek permanent alimony instead. "What do you mean, permanent alimony?" I asked. She rolled her eyes. "You pay me alimony until I die or get remarried," she explained in her most condescending tone. I stood for a moment, pondering silently. "All right," I said warily, "but I get to pick." That cost me an extra hundred bucks a month, but it was worth every penny. --Kevin G. Barkes (alt.quotations, Usenet newsgroup) _Untitled Memoirs_ You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. --attributed to John Barrymore (John Sidney Blythe) (1882—1942) Shakespearean actor. If the wife should say to her husband, "I no longer want you for my husband," she is to be thrown into the water with her hands and feet tied. On the other hand, if he should say, "I no longer want you for my wife," he is to pay her 80 grams of silver. --marriage contract [c. 1700 B.C.], in Jean Bottéro _Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia_, p. 115 [2001]. ^ Ilka Chase (1903—1978) American actress and playwright. A short while after her just-divorced husband, Louis Calhern, married Julia Hoyt, Miss Chase was going through some boxes and found a packet of visiting cards on which was engraved the name 'Mrs. Louis Calhern.' Thinking it a pity to let them go to waste, she wrapped them up and mailed them to her successor with a note: 'Dear Julia, I hope these reach you in time.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^^ Admissible grounds varied from state to state. In South Carolina absolute divorce was not available at all, for any reason; divorce arrived in South Carolina only in 1948. In the other states, the common grounds were adultery, desertion, and cruelty; but there were all sorts of state idiosyncracies. Drunkenness, failure to provide, imprisonment, and impotence were grounds in some states. Leprosy was grounds for divorce in Hawaii; in Virginia a husband could divorce his wife if he discovered she had been a prostitute. Cruelty became the grounds of choice in the twentieth century; it overtook adultery in 1922, and in 1950 accounted for almost three-fifths of all divorces. Most states recognized cruelty as a valid reason for divorce - New York was a prominent exception. What accounts for this outbreak of marital cruelty? Nothing. It was, in fact, an outbreak of collusion. Most "cruelty" cases were uncontested. The plaintiff (usually the wife) filed for divorce. The husband made no defense. Divorce was granted, by default. Collusive divorce had become common in the late nineteenth century; in the twentieth century, it was absolutely pervasive. In legal theory, a collusive divorce was void. Husband and wife had no right to agree to split. In practice, collusion was the rule, not the exception; and the judges all knew it. Their (implicit) motto was: don't ask, don't tell. [ . . . ] In New York divorce was available, practically speaking, only for adultery. This was an extreme situation; but any and all attempts to amend the law ended in shipwreck in the legislature. The demand for divorce, however, was as strong in New York as it was elsewhere. One end-run around divorce was annulment. Annulment is a declaration that a marriage never was valid, because of some kind of fraud or other impediment; in most states, annulment was a rare beast - usually fewer than 4 percent of all dissolutions of marriage. But New York was an annulment Mecca. By 1950 there were ten counties in New York which granted more annulments than divorces; and for the state as a whole, there were two-thirds as many annulments as decrees of divorce. New York also developed a weird form of collusive adultery - one might even call it soft-core adultery. A man would check into a hotel, a woman (usually a blonde) would appear, together with a photographer; the photographer would take pictures of the couple, in pajamas or underwear or even naked; the woman would get her fifty-dollar fee; and lo and behold! here was evidence of adultery. The flavor of this charade is neatly captured in the title of a magazine article from 1934: "I Was the Unknown Blonde in 100 New York Divorces." Collusion was by far the most popular, and practical, detour around tough divorce laws. But the federal system opened another door: the migratory divorce. There had been a number of divorce "mills" in the nineteenth century: states that attracted birds of passage with easy divorce laws. The clergy and respectable people usually objected to this rather tawdry business; and most divorce mills - South Dakota was one - were soon closed down. The main survivor was Nevada, a barren expanse of sagebrush, an empty desert; a kind of moon landscape in the West, but with sovereignty. Nevada made a business out of divorce, as it would later make a business out of gambling, easy marriage, and other forms of pleasure (or vice); "going to Reno" almost became synonymous with "getting a divorce." Nevada was the most popular divorce mill; but some spouses tried more exotic places - the American Virgin Islands, for example, or even Mexico. These were never so popular as Nevada, because there was even more of a question as to whether divorces in those places were valid. --Lawrence M. Friedman (b. 1930) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002], ch. 14 "Family Law and Family Life" pp. 435-6 ^^ [Of her fifth husband:] He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. --Zsa Zsa Gabor [Sari Gabor] (b. 1919) Hungarian-born film actress. Quoted in Ned Sherrin _Cutting Edge_ [1984]. [Woman to her lawyer:] Just another of our many disagreements. He wanted a no-fault divorce, whereas I would prefer to have the bastard crucified. --J.B. Handelsman (b. 1940) American cartoonist. Cartoon caption, "New Yorker" [25 August 1997] And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore. --Thomas Hardy (1840—1928) English novelist and poet. _Jude the Obscure_, pt. I, ch. 9 [1896] It's a sad fact that fifty percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones! --Richard Jeni (1957—2007) American stand-up comedian and actor. Quoted in H. Aaron Cohl _Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes_ [1997]. There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally, you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. --Erica Jong (b. 1942) American novelist. _How To Save Your Own Life_ [1977], "There Is A Rhythm To The Ending" Women will only leave a marriage if it's unbearable; whereas men will split if they get a better offer. --Andrea Newman (b. 1938) British dramatist, in "Sunday Times" [23 May 1999]. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. --Anaïs Nin (1903—1977) French-born American writer. _The Diary of Anaïs Nin_, vol. 4 [Written 1944—1947 & first published in 1966.] However marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fibre, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. --Virgilia Peterson (1904—1966) American author, critic, lecturer, and broadcaster. _A Matter of Life and Death_ [1961] - Thanks for the memory Of candlelight and wine, Castles on the Rhine, The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line. How lovely it was! Thanks for the memory Of rainy afternoons, Swingy Harlem tunes, And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes. How lovely it was! Many's the time that we feasted, And many's the time that we fasted. Oh well, it was swell while it lasted; We did have fun And no harm done. And thanks for the memory Of sunburns at the shore, Nights in Singapore. You might have been a headache but you never were a bore, So thank you so much. Awf'ly glad I met you, Cheerio and toodle-oo, And thank you so much! Thanks for the memory Of sentimental verse, Nothing in my purse, And chuckles when the preacher said "For better or for worse." How lovely it was! Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case, And how I jumped the day you trumped my one and only ace. How lovely it was! We said good-bye with a highball, Then I got as high as a steeple. But we were intelligent people, No tears, no fuss, Hurray for us. So thanks for the memory, And strictly entre nous, Darling, how are you? And how are all the little dreams that never did come true? Awf'ly glad I met you, Cheerio and toodle-oo, And thank you so much! --Leo Robin (1900—1984) American songwriter. "Thanks For The Memory" [1937 song], music by Ralph Rainger. - There are many things children accept as 'grown-up things' over which they have no control and for which they have no responsibility—for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown- up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents' decision to live apart. --Fred Rogers (1928—2003) Host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" [1968—2001]. _Mr. Rogers Talks with Parents_ ch. 10 [1983] I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset I'm not a widow. --Roseanne [Roseanne Barr] (b. 1952) American actress. Quoted in Pete Hamill _Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes_ [1996]. [On why she divorced James Taylor:] Basically, he just wasn't willing to dress up like Louis XIV before we went to bed every night. I really demand that of a partner. --Carly Simon (b. 1945) American singer and songwriter. - I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. "In Memoriam A. H. H." [1850] (Arthur Henry Hallam was the fiancé of Tennyson's sister Emily and died suddenly in September 1833.) & see: Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. --William Congreve (1670—1729) English dramatist. "The Way of the World", act 2, sc. I [1700] - ^ In Detroit, Mrs. Dorothy Van Dorn, suing for divorce, complained that her husband 1) put all their food in a freezer; 2) kept the freezer locked; 3) made her pay for any food she ate, and, 4) charged her the 3% Michigan sales tax. --"Time" (mag.) [10 December 1951] ^ ^^ Wilfred Hyde White, interviewed by Sheridan Morley: 'Wilfred, how is it possible that the epitome of an English gentleman like you can live out here in Palm Springs?' 'There are two reasons,' replied Wilfred. First, I couldn't *stand* the sight of my third wife. Second, I refuse to be held to ransom by the English Inland Revenue.' And then, after a delicate pause, which lasted as long as an intake of breath: 'Do forgive me. That was an inconceivably caddish remark about the Inland Revenue.' _The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Actors and the Theatre" ^^ A Bolton [England] woman petitioning for a divorce was asked to give an example of her husband's behaviour. 'Last year Harry asked me if I had anything to discuss before the football season began, she said. --_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Crime and the Law" ^^ -- A woman goes to see a lawyer about a divorce. He asks, "Any grounds?" Woman, "Yeah, about 2 acres." Lawyer, "Do you have a grudge?" Woman, "No, we have a carport." Lawyer, "Does your husband beat you up?" Woman, "No, I get up before him." The lawyer now getting agitated, "Well, do you or don't you want a divorce?" Woman, "No, my husband wants it...he says he can't communicate with me!" . . see: "HEALTH" for related links see: "OCCUPATIONS" for related links An apple a day keeps the doctor away. --"Anaconda Standard" (Montana) [23 December 1900] Note: According to Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006], "In 1866 'Notes and Queries' recorded "A Pembrokeshire Proverb" — "Eat an apple on going to bed, And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.' " Cure the disease and kill the patient. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ "Of Friendship" [1625] Physician, heal thyself. --_Bible_ "Luke" 4:23 [Erma Bombeck's Rule of Medicine:] Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. --Erma Bombeck (1927—1996) American humorist. I have been accustomed for some time past, to apply leeches to the inflamed testicle, which practice has always been followed with most happy effects. --William Buchan (1729—1805) English doctor. _Domestic Medicine, or a Treatise on the Presentation and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines_ [1797]. Many doctors, death accomplished. --Czech proverb The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. --English proverb - [Patient (Elise Cavanna):] You won't hurt my leg, will you? My doctor says I have a very bad leg. [Dentist (W.C. Fields), leering at her leg:] Your doctor is off his nut! I don't believe in doctors anyway. There's a doctor lives right down the street here. Treated a man for yellow juandice for nine years and then found out he was a Jap. --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor. "The Dentist" [1932 short film] w/screeplay by Fields. - A young doctor means a new graveyard. --German proverb As to diseases make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm. --Hippocrates (c. 460—377 BC) Greek physician. _Epidemics_, bk I, ch. 11 No doctor can tell you anything your own bones don't know. And I can let the doctors in on something. I knew I'd really licked it [heroin addiction] one morning when I couldn't stand television anymore. When I was high and wanted to stay that way, I could watch TV by the hour and loved it. --Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (1915—1959) American jazz singer. _Lady Sings the Blues_ [1956], "God Bless the Child" Joy, and Temperance, and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) American poet. "The Best Medicines" in _The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems_ [3rd ed., 1846]. My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. --Walter Matthau (1920—2000) American actor. In David Brown _Star Billing_ [1985], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993]. The sun shines on their successes, and the earth hides their failures. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592) French moralist and essayist. _Essays_ [1588] tr. Donald M. Frame [1958] "Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers" Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. --Matthew Prior (1664—1721) English poet. _The Remedy Worse than the Disease_ [1727] [To the surgeons about to operate after he was shot:] Please tell me you're Republicans. --Ronald Reagan (1911—2004) American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor. Quoted in "Washington Post" [31 March 1981]. - [To his physicians after an operation:] It will do you no good if I get over this. A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish dramatist and critic. Quoted in "LIFE" (mag.) [23 October 1950] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. We have bestowed on doctors the role of the almighty. --attributed to George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] - Salt Lake City was healthy—an extremely healthy city. They declared that there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having 'no visible means of support.' --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872] The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. --Frank Lloyd Wright (1867—1959) American architect. In the "New York Times Magazine" [4 October 1953]. -- A woman rushes to see her doctor, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattles off, "Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were blood-shot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face! What's wrong with me, Doctor?" The doctor looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says, "Well, I can tell you one thing, there ain't nothing wrong with your eyesight." --- Doctor!" whined the patient. "I keep seeing spots before my eyes." The physician scratched his head, "Why have you come to me? Have you seen an opthalmologist?" "No," replied the patient, "just spots." --- Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news - the good news is that you are not a hypochondriac. --- A doctor examined a woman, took the husband aside, and said, "I don't like the looks of your wife at all." "Me neither doc." said the husband. "But she's a great cook and really good with the kids." ----- auscultation (noun) Listening to the heart, lungs, or the like for the purpose of medical diagnosis, usually with a stethoscope or other instrument. iatrogenic (adj.) 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