Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Quotes
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. 1902Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Diseases, 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, 1982