If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Quotes
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833