Disease Quote by Samuel Johnson

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with…

— Samuel Johnson

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Timidness in life only yield mediocre outcomes.”

— Steven Redhead

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political…

— Benjamin Carson

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

— George D. Prentice

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

— Claudius Claudianus

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

— Ovid

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

— Margaret Cavendish

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

— Emile M. Cioran

“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they…

— Proust Marcel