“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Source: Paradise Lost
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“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
“The cure to information overload is more information.”
David Weinberger (1950) American philosopher
The cure to information overload is more information. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004037.html, Hyperorg.com (2005-05-24)
“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
“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)
“The cure to misunderstanding history is to read more, not less.”
Joseph Nye (1937) American political scientist
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 1, Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics?, p. 19.
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“"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