Remedy Quotes · Page 12

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

— Alexander Fleming

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

— Henry George

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

— Robert Aris Willmott

We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key…

— William Law

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

— Thomas Carlyle

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;…

— Hosea Ballou

“True remedy lies in repentance.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of…

— Salman Rushdie

All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by…

— Glenn Frank

Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution…

— William Graham Sumner

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,…

— Samuel Johnson

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange…

— Calvin Coolidge

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like…

— David Grossman

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy…

— Hannah Arendt

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases.

— Tacitus

Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that…

— Adolf Hitler

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of…

— Timothy Keller

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an…

— Baron de Montesquieu

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds…

— Anna Deavere Smith

The remedy is worse than the disease.

— Francis Bacon

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

— Paracelsus

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

— Joyce Carol Oates