A Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Cured Easily Half Recognized Trouble

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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss - Priest
August 21, 1567 - December 28, 1622

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Bruce Lee

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Charles Caleb Colton

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Carlo Collodi

And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

Caskie Stinnett

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

P. J. O'Rourke

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Aaron Copland

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.

David Starkey

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.