It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Quotes
Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935