Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Quotes
It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913