
“Life is an incurable disease.”
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Epistles and Satires of Alexander Pope
“Life is an incurable disease.”
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.”
Source: Life and How to Survive It
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 328.
“My life has been one long journey.”
As quoted at his last public speech, in reference to the peripatetic nature of his reign.
“…my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…”
Fiction, Tremor of Intent (1966)
“Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.”
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92
Source: The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease to the Soul (1999), p. 9
“Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.”
Freeman (1948), p. 170
Variant: Disease occurs in a household, or in a life, just as it does in a body.