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Quotes About Remedy

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
~ Dario Fo
Many a great, if fleeting, medical discovery has been launched similarly. "Make haste," as one physician put it, "to use a new remedy before it is too late." The guilt does not always lie with the medical profession alone. Public pressure and hasty journalism often launch a treatment that is unproved, particularly when the demand is great and the statistical background hazy. So
~ Darrell Huff
The proponents of hate-crime laws are liberals, and yet they are the ones who are the biggest critics of mass incarceration," observes James B. Jacobs, director of New York University's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, and an expert on hate-crime laws. "So there are ironies piled on ironies. The remedy here is imprisonment, and prisons are the ultimate incubators of antisocial attitudes.
~ Dashka Slater
If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds--a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.
~ James Gould Cozzens
Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.
~ James Kirkwood Jr.
JIt could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
~ James Madison
It is my greatest hope that the story that follows will guide readers through their own process of discovery toward a better understanding of what it takes to summon the public to demand the actions necessary to bring our country closer to its ancient ideals. "There is no one left," McClure exhorted his readers as he cast about for a remedy to America's woes at the turn of the twentieth century, "none but all of us.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Lekiem na nud? jest ciekawo??. Na ciekawo?? nie ma leku.
~ Dorothy Parker
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
~ Aesop
I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious to experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.
~ Agatha Christie
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.
~ Joseph Barbera
For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.
~ Lisa Stansfield
In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.
~ Tertullian
confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man. It is easy to name the disappearances of the Dirty War as crimes
~ Rebecca Solnit
La principal característica del remordimiento es que no tiene remedio: que ha pasado el tiempo de las disculpas o enmiendas
~ Julian Barnes
Anne Trenchard was a practical woman, and one of her chief virtues was that she did not linger over a disaster but sought, almost immediately, to remedy what could be remedied and to accept what could not.
~ Julian Fellowes
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
~ Karl Marx
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
~ Moliere
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
~ Abraham Cowley
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
~ George Herbert
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
~ Swami Vivekananda