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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

—Susan Sontag, 1963

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

—Thomas Mann, 1924

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

—Agnes Repplier, 1929

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

—Ovid, c. 10

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913