Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Quotes
Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871