Medicine for the soul. [ Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes ]
Mirth is God's medicine. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The medicine of the mind. [ Diodorus ]
Great griefs medicine the less. [ William Shakespeare ]
Ready money is a ready medicine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Time is generally the best doctor. [ Ovid ]
Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]
The medicine increases the disease. [ Virgil ]
Time is generally the best medicine. [ Ovid ]
The greatest medicine is a true friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Some remedies are worse than the disease. [ Syrus ]
Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]
I find the medicine worse than the malady. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. [ Sir A. Hunt ]
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune. [ Richelieu ]
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. [ Pope ]
So lived our sires, ere doctors learned to kill,
And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. [ Dryden ]
Patience upon force is a medicine for a mad dog. [ Proverb ]
It is time and not medicine that cures the disease. [ Spanish Proverb ]
The miserable have no other medicine. But only hope. [ William Shakespeare ]
A malady preys on my heart that medicine cannot reach. [ Maturin ]
Afflictions are in morals what bitters are in medicine. [ French ]
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. [ Hippocrates ]
The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. [ Richter ]
Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. [ Beecher ]
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. [ Bible ]
A faithful friend is better than gold; a medicine of misery, an only possession. [ Miss L. Barton ]
No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine. [ Hitopadesa ]
You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. [ To a doctor ]
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [ Ovid ]
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. [ Macaulay ]
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. [ J. F. Boyes ]
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. [ Bacon ]
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine: those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth. [ Colton ]
Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains. [ Henry Giles ]
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. [ Quarles ]
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 ]
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended. [ Whately ]
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state. [ Montaigne ]
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. [ From the French ]
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. [ R. W. Emerson ]
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]
Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]