Managing, Chapter Eight (Not Alcoholism—Egotism), p. 127.
“Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.”
Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
“This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.”
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Context: The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain,—only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil.... This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.
Frank Johnson Goodnow, cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 44
“Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.”
Vanity Fair (May 1984)
“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”
Reported in Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2008), p. 153.
“I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”
