SICKNESS

Related Subjects: Disease, Doctors, Health, Hospital, Medicine

1. 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, The Way of All Flesh
   

2. While the sick man has life there is hope.—CICERO
   

3. If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed.—CHARLES LAMB, Detached Thoughts on Books & Reading
   

4. The sick man is a parasite of society, In certain cases it is indecent to go on living. To continue to vegetate in a state of cowardly dependence upon doctors and special treatments, once the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, ought to be regarded with the greatest contempt by society.—NIETZSCHE, The Twilight of the Idols
   

5. Once Antigonus was told his son was ill, and went to see him. At the door he met some young beauty. Going in, he sat down by the bed and took his pulse. "The fever," said Demetrius, "has just left me." "Oh, yes," replied the father, "I met it going out at the door."—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

6. The purse of the patient protracts his cure.—Proverb
   

7. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.—Proverb
   

8. That sick man is not to be pitied, who hath his cure in his sleeve.—Proverb
   

9. He who never was sick, dies the first fit.—Proverb
   

10. He is in great danger, who being sick thinks himself well.—Proverb
    

11. How has he the leisure to be sick In such a justling time?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

12. This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

13. I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.—BERNARD SHAW, Back To Methuselah