
“Life is an incurable disease.”
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Maxim no. 19.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
“Life is an incurable disease.”
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.”
The Roaring Girl (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1611), Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So for a good old gentlemanly vice,/I think I must take up with avarice", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.
Dijkstra (2000) "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1305.html (EWD 1305).
2000s
“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”
7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
“Oliver… well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”
Source: Carpe Corpus
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 328.