Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
Attributed
“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
Tel est le malheur de notre siècle, les plus étranges égarements même ne guérissent pas de l'ennui.
Vol. II, ch. XVII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)
“The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”
Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 60)
“Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 335.
General Quotes
“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
“Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.”
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.
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
“Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.”
Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 6 (p. 65)
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
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)
