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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (767 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Smilee J.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

[aphorist] Anaïs Nin, in [category] Health and Disease and [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (368 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Stephen

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

[aphorist] Lee Hawkins, in [category] Health and Disease

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (541 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

[aphorist] Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in [category] Health and Disease and [category] Life and Death

The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (873 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

A hospital is no place to be sick.

[aphorist] Samuel Goldwyn, in [category] Health and Disease

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (403 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

[aphorist] Haldane, in [category] Health and Disease and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (307 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Health and Disease

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (349 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane.

[aphorist] Herman Hesse, in [category] Health and Disease

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (302 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Health and Disease

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