A Quote by Patch Adams

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Patch Adams

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Humor Antidote Ills

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Patch Adams
American - Author
Born: May 28, 1945

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

Sue Grafton

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Elizabeth Janeway

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Suzy Kassem

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

Hosea Ballou

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Bill Hybels

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

Bryan Procter

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

Lydia Sigourney

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

Michael Flynn

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.

Bryan Procter

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

David Brin

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.