Quotes of Infirmity - somelinesforyou

“ Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady. ”

- Ibn Gabirol

“ The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it… ”

- Marie Curie

“ This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement — that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it — that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ We're starting to see young people with old people diseases. These diseases include hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, and diabetes. ”

- David Wilson

“ Old age is not a disease — it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. ”

- Maggie Kuhn

“ And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ”

- Bible

“ Retirement: statutory senility. ”

- Emmett O’Donnell

“ Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ I am... in the prime of senility. ”

- Joel Chandler Harris

“ Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she gives us greater courage. ”

- Johann von Goethe

“ Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she gives us greater courage. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Childhood is a disease — a sickness that you grow out of. ”

- William Golding

“ We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ”

- George Santayana

“ Inflation is the senility of democracies. ”

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

“ Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. ”

- John Hutton

“ Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness - teenage suicide... all these Jewish sicknesses. That's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls. ”

- David Duke

“ Time is an herb that cures all Diseases. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. ”

- William Golding

“ The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ”

- Aung San Suu Kyi

“ The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. ”

- Maggie Kuhn
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