If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Quotes
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975