Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Quotes
The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCWe should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904