Cure Quotes

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Prevention is better than cure.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.