“I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five h...” — Martin H. Fischer Quote

“I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.”

“The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.”

“Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.”

“When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.”

“In diagnosis think of the easy first.”

“A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.”

“As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.”

“If I'm honest, my heart and my belly are saying that you're more likely to find me in a greasy spoon than a pop-up, but some of this pop-up stuff is great!”

“I've got a Moroccan shape, where the weight goes on around the belly and the bum.”

“When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!”

“I'm very uncomfortable, mainly with my belly.”

“If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.”