A Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Thomas Love Peacock
English - Novelist
October 18, 1785 - January 23, 1866

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Thomas Love Peacock

Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

Ash Sarkar

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

David Agus

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Rudolf Leuckart

By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free.

John Green

I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.

Neelie Kroes

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

Anne Lamott

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jose Bergamin

I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

Derek Landy

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

Dan Hicks

...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure beri~beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later that the cure for beri~beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease.

Jeffrey Bland

Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.