YourDictionary

cure quotes

  • The cure of the id by the odd.

    -Anonymous
    c.1920  Popular definition of psychoanalysis.

  • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure.

    -Jane Austen
      Mansfield Park, ch.7.

  • As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

  • Physicians of the utmost fame Were called at once, but when they came Theyanswered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.'

    - (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
      Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

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

    - SirThomas Browne
    ^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.2, section 9.

  • But love's a malady without a cure.

    -John Dryden
      Palamon and  Arcite, bk.2, l.110.

  • There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

    -WilliamJames Durant
    Attributed.

  • How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      The Traveller, l.429^30.

  • A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

    - Robert von Ranke Graves
      On English Poetry,'Definitions'.

  • Fishing is undoubtedly a form of madness but, happily for the once-bitten, there is no cure.

    - Baron Douglas-Home
      Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • If the changes we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

  •    Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

    - Carl Gustav Jung
    Quoted in the Observer,19  Jul1975.

  • The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Just So Stories,'How the Camel Got His Hump'.

  • L'amour qui na|"t subitement est le plus long a'   gue  rir. Love which strikes suddenly takes the longest to cure.

    -Jean de La Bruye'  re
      Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.12.

  • Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals, with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

    - Clare Booth Luce
      In Newsweek, 24  Jan.

  • To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?

    -John Milton
      Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.146^51.

  • The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Parents and Children.

  • The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

    -Theophrastus
    Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).

  • Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

    - Augustus Montague Toplady
      Hymn.

  • Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

    -Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
      Letter.

  •    Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, That is not kept in chains, and close-pent rooms, But in fair lightsome lodgings, and isgirt With the wild noise of prattling visitants, Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

    -John Webster
      The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Learn more about cure

link/cite print suggestion box