Much meat, much disease. [ Proverb ]

Genius is a nervous disease. [ De Tours ]

Disease is a hot-house plant. [ Haller ]

Talking is the disease of age. [ Ben Jonson ]

A disease known is half cured. [ Proverb ]

Old age is an incurable disease. [ Seneca ]

Timidity is a disease of the mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The medicine increases the disease. [ Virgil ]

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are reliev'd.
Or not at all. [ Shakespeare ]

The remedy is worse than the disease. [ Bacon ]

This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise. [ William Shakespeare ]

That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty - transient flower. [ Goldsmith ]

Wit without an employment is a disease. [ Burton ]

The cure may be worse than the disease. [ Proverb ]

Desperate diseases need desperate cures. [ Proverb ]

O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness. [ Plato ]

Some remedies are worse than the disease. [ Publius Syrus ]

Against diseases here the strongest fence.
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. [ Herrick ]

Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave.
On their departure most of all show evil. [ William Shakespeare ]

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. [ Hazlitt ]

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [ Goethe ]

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [ Ovid ]

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [ Ovid ]

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The chief disease that reigns this year is folly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is time and not medicine that cures the disease. [ Spanish Proverb ]

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach. [ Cicero ]

The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy. [ Martin Luther ]

Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. [ Haliburton ]

Love is a disease that kills nobody, but one whose time has come. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. [ Juv ]

Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little. [ Carlyle ]

It is not the disease but neglect of the remedy which generally destroys life. [ From the Latin ]

The remedy is worse than the disease (the disorder increases with the remedy).

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. [ Horace ]

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. [ Cicero ]

Life is disease of which sleep relieves us; it is but a palliative: death is the remedy. [ Chamfort ]

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [ Horace ]

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. [ Johnson ]

As the heart is, so is love to the heart; it partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. [ Longfellow ]

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. [ Addison ]

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. [ Thoreau ]

So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them. [ La Bruyere ]

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a fine observation of Plato, in his Laws, that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding. [ Wm. Fleming ]

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. [ Nathaniel Hawthorne ]

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. [ Burton ]

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen. [ Count De Montalembert ]

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature. [ Jeffrey ]

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [ Colton ]

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]

Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of popularity is shame: if thou be once up, beware: from fame to infamy is a beaten road. [ Quarles ]

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]

We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the industries and technologies of tomorrow. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]