Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Quotes
I 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. 1902How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCDiseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833