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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• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

  Franz Boas

  Civilization, Corny, Modern

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  Ike Skelton

  Goal, Research, Common

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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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• 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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• In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

  Jim Doyle

  Alzheimer's, One Day, Research

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  Xavier Becerra

  Aggravation, Twenties, Deterioration

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• The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

  Agnes Repplier

  Past, Littles, Common

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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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• Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Sex, Gay, Breeding

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• Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Herbs, Cures, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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