#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

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#cared #childhood #doctor #family #i

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#benefit #body #complete #fact #free

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. ↗

— William Banting

#become #bodily #history #matters #mere

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

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? ↗

— Petrarch

#any #blessing #dangerous #desire #found

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#ailment #designer #many #pride #so-called

I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them. ↗

— Patricia Mulcahy

#ailments #infirmities #positive-attitude #positive-thinking #survival