A Quote by Samuel Johnson

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Samuel Johnson

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Pankaj Mishra

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Neil Gaiman

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

Elizabeth Pisani

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

Malachy McCourt

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

Julie Anne Peters

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean de la Bruyere

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Chuck Palahniuk

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

William Ralph Inge

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

Isabella Beeton

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

Clarence Darrow

The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.

Michael Phelps

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.