Quotes on Antidotes

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
― Aristotle

“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
― George Steiner

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”

― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes