Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbQuotes
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020