25 Metaphors for cures

The only cure for the evils which come from ignorance and shiftlessness is the abolition of ignorance and shiftlessness; and this is slow work.

There is no doubt whatever that Crusoe learned an erroneous lesson that day, and was firmly convinced thenceforth that the best cure for a fainting fit is a melancholy yell.

After the banquet of a Trimalchion, such a hunger-cure as Christianity was a necessity.

This, if not a permanent cure, was at least a partial remedy.

31 When fate, or error, had our age misled, And o'er this nation such confusion spread, The only cure, which could from Heaven come down, Was so much power and piety in one!

Clarendon says, that the King's cause labored under an incurable disease of want of money, and that the only cure for starvation was a victory.

I know the use of pain: bar not the leech Because his cure is bitter'Tis such medicine Which breeds that paltry strength, that weak devotion, For which you say you love me.

An example of what I mean is the astute saying, frequently heard nowadays: "The cure for democracy is more democracy.

And that cure, like most cures, is a long and a painful process.

All women, to say the least, are as vain as they are sensitive, whence, the cure for sensitiveness is vanity.

Whatever is the cause of your trouble the only cure for it is Common-Sense.

He tells Argan that his doctors will confess this much, that the cure of a patient is a very minor consideration with them, "toute l'excellence de leur art consiste en un pompeux galimatias, en un spécieux babil, qui vous donne des mots pour des raisons, et des promesses pour des effets."

Cure of melancholy is either Sect 1.

Every sickness is a musical problem; the cure is the musical solution.

Let him be careful, therefore, to distinguish what we cite from the gospels, from what we offer as our own: he will find many difficulties removed; and, if some yet remain, let him remember that, "God is in heaven and we upon earth," that, "our thoughts are not God's thoughts," and that the great cure of doubt is an humble mind.

The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse.

" Its juice has long been deemed potent against warts, and a Lincolnshire cure for eyes affected by rheumatism or weakness is a poultice made of rotten apples.

Nevertheless, the cure of these, too, is but a question of time, though, to carry on the metaphor, I think in either case the hapless rider loses some of the zest and dash which distinguished his earlier performances, previous to discomfiture.

The only cure against snake bite is snake anti-venom.

It is often said that the only cure for existing social ills is a great revival of religion, and this is true.

We may say at once, therefore, that it is not so easily remedied as that simpler defect; that, although identical principles will be followed in its treatment, cure must be a matter of some considerable time.

A popular cure for ringworm in Scotland is a decoction of sun-spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia), or, as it is locally termed, "mare's milk.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.

Haven't you worked hard enough in your great parish, without allowing yourself to spoil this rest you so much need?" "Sue," said her brother, "the best cure for certain kinds of overwork is merely more work, only of a different sort.

Through a long series of financial trials, sorrows, afflictions by death and pressing cares, this family learned to depend on God for their daily prosperity; and the cures wrought in them, according to God's Word, are only a small portion of the remarkable answers to prayer with which their history is filled.

25 Metaphors for  cures