“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”
H. G. Wells book Boon
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”
H. G. Wells book Boon
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)
“Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Peter Chung Hoan Ting (1928) Malaysian catholic priest
Archbishop Emeritus Peter Chung celebrates his 90th birthday http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/archbishop-emeritus-peter-chung-celebrates-his-90th-birthday/44331/1 (September 21, 2018)
“Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
C'est une ennuyeuse maladie que de conserver sa santé par un trop grand régime.
Maxim 72 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”
Lionel Trilling book The Liberal Imagination
Art and Neurosis
The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Variant: My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace
'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary
Source: City of Bones
“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Fable, The Farmer's Wife and the Raven. Comparable to: "It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand", Plautus, Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3
Fables (1727)
