We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Quotes
The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCIf we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005