#ailment

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#astonished #before #came #clerk #coins

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#delectable #display #isolates #like #lovers

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#ailments #always #best #comes #doctors

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#coughing #criticism #respiratory #theater

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #cure #expensive #going #just

I only get unusual ailments. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#get #i #only #unusual

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#dealing #had #holding #hurting #i

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. ↗

— Plutarch

#between #fatal #imbalance #most #oldest

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#ceased #curtailment #danger #grave #grave danger