Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven ...

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven.

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

A pharmacist in the Rue de Vaugirard, absorbed in bottling leeches and obviously a figment of Rene Clair's imagination, paused long enough to patch me up grudgingly, and I went into a brasserie hard by for a restorative.

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

What destroys one man preserves another.

Most men die of their remedies, not of their diseases.