Malady Quotes

• as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Physicians, Fever, Easy

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.9, FastPencil Inc

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• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

  Eric Hoffer

  Teacher, Time, Children

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 33, 1973.

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• But love's a malady without a cure.

  John Dryden

  Love, Literature, Cures

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 110

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• The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

  William Wilberforce

  Sick, Community, Political

  William Wilberforce (2003). “A Practical View: Of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.389, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The real malady is fear of life, not of death

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Real, Fears Of Life

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 29, 2011

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• A malady
  Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Prey, Meds

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• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Hate, Passion

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• At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

  Edmund Wilson

  Elderly, Gout, Sometimes

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• I find the medicine worse than the malady.

  John Fletcher

  Medicine

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1711). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The knight of the burning pestle. Loves pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The knight of Malta. Love's cure. Women pleas'd”

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• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ignorance

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

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• Where the greater malady is fixed,
  The lesser is scarce felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Fixed, Scarce

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• We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

  Bertrand Russell

  Advice, Solitude, World

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

  Djuna Barnes

  Men, Needs, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Mind, Peculiar

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• For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Physicians, Four, Poverty

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.

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• We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Suffering

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• Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

  William Osler

  Suffering, Lessons, Patient

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.190, ACP Press

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• A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

  Voltaire

  Country, Law, Numbers

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• A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

  Samuel Richardson

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Causes, Annoying

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• The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Society, Technique

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

  Gore Vidal

  Wise, Art, Love Is

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Suffering, Purpose

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.15, Moody Publishers

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• Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Suffering

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.252

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