“Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.” WellsInterestPleaseDiseaseTalesMortalsCharmMinorsWornChordsStaleDrearyMalady Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.” WorldInspirationalLightActionJoyEvilReligiousHealingDarknessHellTearsPleaseCostDiseaseHighestGardenBlueRoseSakeSmellTyrannyPityCuresLeapYellowSubmitLowestCunningJaundice Author:C. S. Lewis
“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayAgeFallWallPleaseDiseaseBeatsShotsStonesOld AgeThis LifeFalling DownStairsGood WayByeGood ByeRagsStood UpCellarsStone Walls Book:A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce Source: A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce
“In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.” PeopleYearsLooksAgeAmericaPoorCenturyYouthPleaseDiseaseLateLet MeRelatedOld PeopleTwentieth CenturySexinessSenility Book:Hooking Up Source: Hooking Up
“I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?" A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway." "While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.” ShouldSaidEyeCareRememberStupidPleaseDiseaseShould HaveHis EyesMusclesNot StupidBarbell Book:The Darkest Night Source: The Darkest Night
“Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.” GivingKindLittlesWarCountryLawMotherGuyPleaseDiseaseBillsIn-lawsMother In Law Author:Dalton Trumbo
“My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.” StillsReasonDesireLeftLove IsPleaseDiseaseAngryLongingIllPreservesDesperateAppetitePhysiciansUncertainFeedingFeverPrescriptionsFamous Love Author:William Shakespeare