Top 332 Prescription Quotes & Sayings

I always wear colored prescription contacts for my looks.

At least you don’t need a prescription for tequila.

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

The best prescription is knowledge.

Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.

I work through Kaenon with my sunglasses because they're prescription.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

I believe gelato is meant to be treated as medicine and taken daily as a prescription.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

In 1999, Purdue Pharma the maker of OxyContin went on a massive marketing campaign. Back then, prescription opioids were only used in extreme cases - post surgery, end of life care, cancer pain. We use a clip from an ad in the film where they had a doctor saying, "Less than 1 percent of people who use prescription opioid long-term will become addicted" - that changed the mindset of physicians across the country.

Competition is the best way to ensure prescription drugs are affordable.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

The cost of prescription drugs in this country is far, far higher than in any other country. You may recall that Donald Trump as a candidate for president talked about how he was going to take on the pharmaceutical industry and it was going to lower prescription drug costs.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I think we can build broad bipartisan support for bringing down prescription drug costs.

President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like to hang backstage. You could get a prescription for anything you want from them. They just want to hang out and party. It's crazy because you can get a prescription to anything. It doesn't even matter what kind of doctor they are.

One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

We pay so much more for the same pill, prescription drugs than other countries. You go to Canada - people go to Canada to buy prescriptions. So we're subsidizing the world in terms of prescription drugs. It's ridiculous. And it's going to stop. The problem I have is these companies give so much - I mean the contributions are massive, just massive, the amount. But we do have - there are a lot of good people that are seeing what's going on. And I think we'll be successful in that. Next week, I'm going to declaring an emergency, national emergency on drugs.

It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.

My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.

How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

We did decide that every addict in this film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, would be someone who started out with a prescription for an opioid from a doctor. The story that hadn't been told is that the vast majority - somewhere around 80 percent - of current heroin users began with an addiction to prescription opioids. So as much as people might want to look at this and say, 'Oh this is really a heroin problem,' yes, it is a heroin problem, and no one is saying differently, but it starts more often than not with a prescription.

Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Women should use pain medication only as directed and talk with their doctor about all drugs they're taking, including over-the-counter medications. Store prescription drugs in a secure place and properly dispose of them as soon as treatment is over. And never share prescription drugs with anyone else.

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress.... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life.

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.

It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.