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Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

—David Riesman, 1937

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

—Samuel Johnson, 1750

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

—Cotton Mather, 1693

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

—Thomas Mann, 1924

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

—George W. Bush, 2005

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

—Hans Zinsser, 1935

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936