The cure of the id by the odd.

-Anonymous
c.1920  Popular definition of psychoanalysis.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure.

-Austen,Jane
  Mansfield Park, ch.7.

As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

Physicians of the utmost fame Were called at once, but when they came Theyanswered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.'

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.2, section 9.

But love's a malady without a cure.

-Dryden,John
  Palamon and  Arcite, bk.2, l.110.

There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

-Durant,WilliamJames
Attributed.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Traveller, l.429^30.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  On English Poetry,'Definitions'.

Fishing is undoubtedly a form of madness but, happily for the once-bitten, there is no cure.

-Douglas-Home, Baron
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

If the changes we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

   Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

-Jung, Carl Gustav
Quoted in the Observer,19  Jul1975.

The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Just So Stories,'How the Camel Got His Hump'.

L'amour qui na|"t subitement est le plus long a'   gue¤  rir. Love which strikes suddenly takes the longest to cure.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.12.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals, with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

-Luce, Clare Booth
  In Newsweek, 24  Jan.

To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?

-Milton,John
  Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.146^51.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Parents and Children.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

-Theophrastus
Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

-Toplady, Augustus Montague
  Hymn.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
  Letter.