Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbQuotes
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936