Disease Quotes - Page 11

• The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine, Drug, Physicians

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• If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

  Jim Stynes

  Life, Cancer, Sickness

  Jim Stynes (2012). “My Journey”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• Apoplexie and lethargie,
  As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Enemy, Forlorn, Assault

  "La Seconde Semaine". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1584.

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• The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Hurt, Cures, Painless

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• Being a foreigner is not a disease.

  Alden Nowlan

  Foreigners

  Alden Nowlan (1968). “Miracle at Indian River: stories”, Toronto, Clarke

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• We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Cures, Labour

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

  Jimmy Carter

  Patriotic, Presidential, Aggression

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Perfect, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Health, Medicine, Understanding

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.424

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• Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

  Sean O'Casey

  Prayer, Men, Light

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• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Equality, Disease And Death

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257

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• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational, Healing, Health

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• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

  Robert Herrick

  Sex, Abstinence, Fence

  Hesperides 'Abstinence'

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• Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

  Hippocrates

  Philosophical, Health, Remedy

  "Aphorisms". 1:6,

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• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Grief, Suffering, Causes

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• Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Bill Maher (2010). “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?: The Best of Politically Incorrect”, p.189, Ballantine Books

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• Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

  Hosea Ballou

  Nature, Health, Medicine

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• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, War, Adventure

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  Wendell Phillips

  Government, Tyrants, People

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.421

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• We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Hate, Health, Anxiety

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• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Health, Psychics, Century

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Consciousness is a disease.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Consciousness

  Miguel de Unamuno, Warner Fite (1928). “Mist: A Tragicomic Novel”, p.8, University of Illinois Press

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• Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Adventure, Science

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• The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

  Alan Russell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Care

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