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Disease: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Apoplexie, and Lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.— DU BARTAS — Divine Weekes and Workes. Second Week. First Day. Pt. III.

The Furies. [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 — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sc. 2. Memb. 3.

Subsect. 10. That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.— GOLDSMITH — Double Transformation. L. 75.

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.— NATH. HAWTHORNE — Scarlet Letter. Ch. X.

Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.— HERRICK — Abstinence.

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 — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 133.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 165.

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 9.

Aëre non certo corpora languor habet. Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. II. 310.

Vitiant artus ægræ contagia mentis. Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.— OVID — Tristium. III. 8. 25.

Doch ein gekränktes Herz erholt sich schwer. A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.— GOETHE — Torquato Tasso. IV. 4. 24.

D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.— METASTASIO — Giuseppe Riconosciuto. I.