“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Last update Dec. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name." by Gabriel García Márquez?

Gabriel García Márquez photo

Gabriel García Márquez218

Colombian writer 1927–2014

Related quotes

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

“As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

“You gotta remember that in war, you’re not deciding between the bad thing to and the good thing. You’re choosing between the bad and the worse. And you can’t control the shit that happens after you choose.”

Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist

Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 27 (p. 402)

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

“Too much SALT is bad for your health.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“Calvin: That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
p190”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

“It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.”

Milan Kundera The Joke

Žádné pocínání není samo o sobe dohré ani zlé. Teprve jeho místo v rádu ciní je dobrým ci zlým.
The Joke (1967)

Related topics