remedy quotes

The remedy is worse than the disease.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.

Para todo hay remedio, si no es para la muerte. There's a remedy for everything except death.

- Miguel de Cervantes
  Don Quixote, pt.2, ch.10.

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme'  de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.

- Se  bastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Maximes et Pense  es (1795), ch.2.

   Sen for the deid remeid is none, Best is that we for dede dispone Eftir our deid that lif may we: Timor mortis conturbat me.

- Alexandre, pe'  re Dumas
c.1505  'Lament for the Makaris', stanza 25.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

- Guy Fawkes
   When questioned after his arrest on 5 Nov.

It's me Auntie Maggie's home-made remedy Guaranteed never to fail Now that's the stuff that will do the trick It's sold at ev'ry chemist for 'one and a kick'.

- George Formby
  'Auntie Maggie's Remedy' (with Eddie Latta), song featured in the film Turned Out Nice Again.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

-Thomas Kyd
c.1589  The Spanish Tragedy, act 3, sc.6.