Ailments Quotes - Page 3

• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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• He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Doctors

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.286, Jaico Publishing House

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• A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Disease, Taste

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.42

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• ... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

  Albert Einstein

  Civilization, Childhood, Humanity

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Real, Elderly, Lasts

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Health, Medicine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.166

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• Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.

  Prentice Mulford

  Health, Thinking, Dwelling

  PRENTICE MULFORD (2017). “THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY. YOUR FORCES, AND HOW TO USE THEM. VOL. VI.”, Lulu.com

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

  William Banting

  Matter, Mere

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Cat, Insomnia, Pet

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, 1949.

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• Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

  Maurice Blanchot

  People, Proud, Lovers

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• I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Benefits, Body, Facts

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• Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Mind, Body, Dissonance

  Georges Rodenbach (1903). “Bruges-la-morte: A Romance”

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• When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Healing, Thinking

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• Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Heart, Loss, Blood

  Jeff Schweitzer, Larry Deutsch (2011). “Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction”, p.7, Dr. Larry Deutsch

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• Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

  John Green

  Dutch, Language, Throat

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Affection

  'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 1 February 1711

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  An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Tyrants, Economic Inequality

  "When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

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• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

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• A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Husband, Being The Best

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• The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Trying, Looks

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

  Dick Gregory

  Dark, Pet, Suffering

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• There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

  Richard L. Evans

  Wise, Children, Home

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