Physic Quotes

29 quotes by 25 authors

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt… — Francis Bacon
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. — Michel de Montaigne
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain… — Samuel Johnson
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. — Joseph Addison
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of… — William Shakespeare
Confidence and hope do more good than physic. — Galen
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second… — Alexander Pope
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter,… — Izaak Walton
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. — John Wilmot
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. — William Shakespeare
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy… — William Penn
Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. — Augustus William Hare
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. — William Shakespeare
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of… — William Cowper
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. — Alexander Pope
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and… — Henry Fielding

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