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Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

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

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

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

—Thomas Mann, 1924

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

—Ovid, c. 10

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

—Cotton Mather, 1693

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

—Richard Krause, 1982

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

—Susan Sontag, 1963

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845

The best quarantine is hygiene.

—Richard D. Arnold, 1871