Thou sick man's health! [ Cowley ]
Poor in purse, sick at heart. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Folly is often sick of itself. [ Proverb ]
Till one is utterly sick of it.
The delusive dreams of a sick man. [ Horace ]
Giving is dead, restoring very sick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. [ Bible ]
While a sick man has life, there is hope. [ Proverb ]
Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]
He who was never sick dies the first fit. [ Proverb ]
A naughty child is better sick than whole. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [ Ovid ]
The world itself makes us sick of the world. [ Bossuet ]
Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. [ William Shakespeare ]
Giving is dead, and restoring is deadly sick. [ Proverb ]
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash.
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash -
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. [ Crabbe ]
No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]
Sick of the mulligrubs with eating of chopped hay. [ Proverb ]
Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. [ Proverb ]
We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick. [ Terence ]
Go steal a horse, and then you'll die without being sick. [ Proverb ]
He is in great danger, who being sick, thinks himself well. [ Proverb ]
A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick. [ Sir W. Temple ]
It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick. [ Proverb ]
That sick man is not to be pitied who hath his cure in his sleeve. [ Proverb ]
A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.
Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. [ Froude ]
Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. [ Proverb ]
I am sick of this bad world! The daylight and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. [ Colton ]
Why will you break the Sabbath of my days? Now sick alike of envy and of praise. [ Pope ]
O Lucius, I am sick of this bad world! The day-light and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. [ Cowper ]
You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. [ To a doctor ]
What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element is that of a sick body on the human soul or thinking part! [ Carlyle ]
Out, you impostors, quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. [ Massinger ]
Health is the greatest of all possessions, and it is a maxim with me that a hale cobbler is a better man than a sick king. [ Bickerstaff ]
The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? [ Thackeray ]
O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Thinkest thou the fiery fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? [ William Shakespeare ]
The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. [ Carlyle ]
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship. [ Pope ]
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 ]
Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]