“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”
Newsweek (Jan. 24, 1955)
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American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and ant… 1903–1987Related quotes
“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
“Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.”
Richard Matheson book I Am Legend
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 17
Context: His sex drive had diminished, had virtually disappeared. Salvation of the monk, he thought. The drive had to go sooner or later, or no normal man could dedicate himself to any life that excluded sex.
Now, happily, he felt almost nothing; perhaps a hardly discernible stirring far beneath the rocky strata of abstinence. He was content to leave it at that. Especially since there was no certainty that Ruth was the companion he had waited for. Or even the certainty that he could allow her to live beyond tomorrow. Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
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
“Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus https://books.google.com/books?id=xvv4HcYdxd0C&pg=PA42&dq=%22Those+who+have+the+disease+called+Jesus+will+never+be+cured.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9_f7L-JTkAhXJ1VkKHfSGDHUQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Those%20who%20have%20the%20disease%20called%20Jesus%20will%20never%20be%20cured.%22&f=false (1986), p. 42 <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
Attributed
Billy Corgan (1967) American musician, songwriter, producer, and author
Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy. (Month?), 1997.
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“"Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"”
Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 32