Cured

Famous quotes containing the word cured:

“Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

“When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely cured and at rest from all.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism.... The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)