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Quotes About Remedy

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
~ George Burns
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things.
~ Brian Regan
There's a rumble in your tum, That makes you feel glum, Diarrhea, Diarrhea. There's a feeling in your rear, That fills you with fear, Diarrhea, Diarrhea. Then it comes out of your bum, Like a bullet from a gun, Diarrhea, Diarrhea. Discovered and remastered by Max Tew and Seb Howarth
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
In your pursuit of excellence, remember that hard work is often the remedy to feeling ordinary, incapable, and discouraged.  
~ Jason Bacchetta
no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . . Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.
~ Edmund Spenser
Oftimes it haps, that sorrowes of the mynd Find remedie vnsought, which seeking cannot fynd.
~ Edmund Spenser
To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.
~ Edwidge Danticat
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
~ Albert Camus
but Christ has taught us, by His example in choosing Judas, as also by the parable of the tares, that we must submit to the evil, and leave the remedy in higher hands. Out of evil God often brings good, as He did in the case of the traitor.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
~ Benjamin Rush
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
~ Thomas More
Pliny reports solemnly, "It is said that if a person is rubbed with asparagus beaten up in oil, he will never be stung by bees.
~ Rebecca Rupp
Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.
~ Rick Riordan
We need that warm adult stupidity. Even knowing the illusion, we cry and hide in their laps, speaking only of defiled lollipops or lost bears, and getting a lollipop or a toy bear's worth of comfort. We make do with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
~ Katherine Dunn
an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.
~ George David Stewart
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
~ William Moulton Marston
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
~ William Shakespeare
O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.
~ William Shakespeare
In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come—not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute…. And this results in a striking experience—one which I have called, borrowing military terminology, the situation of the walking wounded.
~ William Styron
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
If we don't understand how seriously ill we are, we don't pursue the remedy with the required diligence. If we are slightly ill, we take an aspirin. If we are dying, we passionately pursue a cure. The cure is not forced on us; it is offered to us.4
~ William Wilberforce