Disease Quotes - Page 2

• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Astrology is a disease, not a science.

  Maimonides

  Astrology

  Laws of Repentance (ca. 1175)

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• And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation.

  Robert Boyle

  Giving, Doctrine, Able

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• Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.

  William Thomas Councilman

  May, Normal, Negation

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• The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

  R. D. Laing

  Funny, Life, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  Quentin Crisp

  Health, Ironic, Irony

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 21, 1968.

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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Success, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

  Alan Moore

  Christian, Believe, Degrees

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• The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

  Marianne Moore

  Relationship, Passion, People

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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• When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Mean, Modern Life

  'The Cherry Orchard' (1904) act 2

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  Misery is a communicable disease.

  Martha Graham

  Attitude, Emotion, Misery

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• Disease is not of the body but of the place.

  Seneca the Younger

  Advice, Body

  Epistulae ad Lucilium

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• The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Men, World

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• Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Grief, Carpe Diem

  John Armstrong, John Aikin (1804). “The Art of Preserving Health”, p.143

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• Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

  Craig Raine

  Powerful, Writing, Viruses

  Craig Raine (2011). “In Defence of T. S. Eliot”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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• You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Fall, Roots

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• There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Believe, People, Alcoholism

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Song, Home

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• Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

  Heraclitus

  Political, Racist, Sacred

  "The fragments of Heraclitus" by Heraclitus, no. 47,

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• Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

  Keith Miller

  Addiction, Our Society, Mark

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• But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

  Pat Summerall

  Thinking, People, Realizing

  "Political Sex Scandal; Interview With Pat Summerall; 'Minding Your Business': Wal-Mart; '90-Second Pop'". "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Different, Hiv

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• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  Dawn Powell

  War, Men, Vanity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Sex, Gay, Breeding

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