It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Quotes
Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10