Cures Quotes - Page 24

• Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Failing, Disorder

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• The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Recovery, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.495, Vintage

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• Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

  John Henry Newman

  Evil

  John Henry Newman (1871). “Essays: Critical and historical”, p.365

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• Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

  Jordi Molla

  Art, Darkness, Inspired

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• The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Interesting, People

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• Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Addiction, Greed

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

  Plato

  Soul, Body, Made

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• If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
  [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
  Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

  Horace

  Eye, Years, Mind

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• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

  George Eliot

  Death, Years, Shadow

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6956, Delphi Classics

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• Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Angel, Gay, Sight

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• A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

  Moliere

  Husband, Girlhood, Plasters

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• There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Fool

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• Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Disease, Able, Treats

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.418, e-artnow

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• We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

  Anais Nin

  Evil, Politics

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• There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Exercise, Air

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Self, Doe

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• Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

  Honore de Balzac

  Evil, Quacks, Statesmen

  Honore de Balzac “A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, Library of Alexandria

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• The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tuberculosis, Bad Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Disease, Certain

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Hands, Soul

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.50

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• A quick cure is a quack cure.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Healing, Quacks

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Romance, Might, Knows

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hate, Ignorance, Thinking

  Clarence Darrow (1924). “Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty”

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• A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Broken, Despair

  Henry Fielding (1882). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”

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• The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

  Thomas Paine

  Together, Disease, Lasts

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.64

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