Quotes about cure
A collection of quotes on the topic of cure, use, disease, people.
Quotes about cure
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Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”

Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

“There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.”
Speech (30 April 1954)

Playboy interview (1973)
Context: I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream. … Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. That's what I want for me.

“There is no cure without side effects unless it is a heavenly miracle.”

As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964)
Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
Variant: The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.

“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”
Source: South of No North

1970s
Source: Malcolm Muggeridge, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, A Gift For God: Prayers and Meditations, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. p. 61; Cited in: M. Dhavamony. "Mother Teresa's mission of love for the poor" in: Studia missionalia, Vol 39. (1990), p. 137

About his second piano concerto. Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners by Donald N. Ferguson.
“Fool, if you be cancer, I be the cure.”
"Bueno, si mi pueblo perece, por falta de conocimiento. Aqui le va una aspirina
The first sentence is from the Book of Hosea, 4:6.

2010-02-03
Obama's Philosophically Fascist State of the Union Address
Townhall.com
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2010/02/03/obamas-philosophically-fascist-state-of-the-union-address-n1331445

1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Healing
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Source: Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words

“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”


“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Section 2, member 3.
Variant: What can't be cured must be endured.
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

“A canter is the cure for all evil.”

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
Source: The Angel's Game
29 Oct 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”

“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)

1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.”
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 1 - The Vision

Letter to Harry O. Fischer (late February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 416-417
Non-Fiction, Letters

Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy. (Month?), 1997.

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
According to The Veterinarian (Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science) for 1851, edited by Mr. Percivall, this is Ben Jonson's "satirical definition of physic".
Misattributed

“For art to be art it has to cure.”
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

“Absence, that common cure of love.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 10.

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

"Thoughts of a Free Thinker", commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (26 May 1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)

As quoted in The Pursuit of Learning in the Islamic World, 610-2003 http://books.google.com.bh/books?id=KTWDxDEY-Q0C&lpg=PA75&dq=Medicine%20considers%20the%20human%20body%20as%20to%20the%20means%20by%20which%20it%20is%20cured%20and%20by%20which%20it%20is%20driven%20away%20from%20health.&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=Medicine%20considers%20the%20human%20body%20as%20to%20the%20means%20by%20which%20it%20is%20cured%20and%20by%20which%20it%20is%20driven%20away%20from%20health.&f=false (2006), by Hunt Janin, p. 75.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

Henry Mintzberg (1989) Mintzberg on management: inside our strange world of organizations. p. 301. As cited in: R. van den Nieuwenhof (2003) 2 strategie: omgaan met de omgeving. p. 36

2016, United Nations Address (September 2016)

Les médecins administrent des médicaments dont ils savent très peu, à des malades dont ils savent moins, pour guérir des maladies dont ils ne savent rien.
This attribution to Voltaire appears in Strauss' Familiar Medical Quotations (1968), p. 394, and in publications as early as 1956 http://books.google.pt/books?id=lCtCAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&dq=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=mbnWUsvDIfTB7Aaw_YD4Dw&redir_esc=y; the quotation in French does not, however, appear to be original, and is probably a relatively modern invention, only quoted in recent (21st century) published works, which attribute it to "Voltaire" without citing any source.
Attributed

Twenty-Six Books on Animals [De animalibus libri XXVI]; cited in: Plinio Prioreschi (1996) A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine. p. 94.
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 120

Concepts

1920s, What I Believe (1925)

“For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.”
1:6; Variant translations:
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Compare: "A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy", Guy Fawkes, in admitting to the Gunpowder Plot; "Diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance are relieved, / Or not at all", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv, Scene 3; "For a desperate disease a desperate cure", Michel de Montaigne, The Custom of the Isle of Cea, Chapter iii.
Aphorisms

1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)

Campaign rally http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/19/remarks-president-campaign-event-fairfax-va, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
2012

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande.
Letter to Louise Dorothea of Meiningen, duchess of Saxe-Gotha Madame (30 January 1762)
Citas

Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 143

Rule of St. Benedict: Chapter 30: How Boys Are to Be Corrected

“Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.”
Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardens
Gaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo.
At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae,
Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem.
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 13-16

Source: 2015, Address to the Nation by the President on San Bernardino (December 2015)

“Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.”
Essays Volume II, Essay XIV: "Private Judgment" http://www.newmanreader.org/works/essays/volume2/private.html British Critic (July 1841).