- Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie: Even good doctors often forget that fear is a tyrant over the body as well as the mind. People can acquire the evil results of every disease just through fear alone.
- Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie: Only two kinds of people don't want to see doctors; those that know that they're well, and those that know they're not.
- Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie: Pneumonia. It strikes so quick and we work so slow. Why we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. This is the 20th century! We ought to be able to cure anything, and yet we let this white death, this invisible killer, run riot as though we were still living in the dark ages.
- Sally, Telephone Operator: Of course I work in a hospital, but I don't understand medicine. My brother has been managing a chicken farm for 10 years but he still can't lay an egg.
- Dr. Leonard Barry Gillespie: Someday I'm going to sit down and prove to you that you can't win money in a crap game.
- Conover: Yes sir, I guess maybe you is right, sir. I've often thought I'd give up gambling and just stick to playing the races.