In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Quotes
The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCOurs is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989I 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, 1936I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BC