The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Quotes
In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCHe who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Health 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, 1924Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982