(163 quotes found)
“TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (_Mendax interminabilis_).”
Ambrose Bierce
“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.”
Edward Young
“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using”
Samuel Daniel
“Focus on remedies, not faults.”
Jack Nicklaus
“Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb”
Benjamin Rush
“Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best”
Kin Hubbard
“Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
“Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.”
Thomas Sydenham
“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.”
Hippocrates
“Force is not a remedy.”
John Bright
