Sickness Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

17 Sickness Quotes
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“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Isaiah (ch. I, v. 5)
“The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before You sneer, and I assure you this is true, For I have found it answer--so may you.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 13)
“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 13)
“But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. - George Colman ("The Younger"),”
George Colman ("The Younger") Quotes
Source: Broad Grins--Lodgings for Single Gentlemen (st. 7)
“Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.”
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy Quotes
Source: Science and Health (ch. XIV)
“Prevention is better than cure.”
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy Quotes
Source: Science and Health (ch. XIV)
“I've that within for which there are no plasters.”
David Garrick Quotes
Source: in prologue to Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer"
“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne,”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse--The Procession of Life
“A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.”
Charles Robert Maturin Quotes
Source: Bertram (act IV, sc. 2)
“He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake. His coward lips did from their color fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his luster.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
“Is Brutus sick, and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humors Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night, And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air, To add unto his sickness?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Portia at II, i)
“Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at IV, i)
“My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at V, i)
“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: Back to Methuselah
“An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes
Source: Village Wife
“Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.”
Thomas Wolfe (Thomas Clayton Wolfe) Quotes
Source: Look Homeward, Angel (pt. I, ch. 1)
“I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.”
Edward Young Quotes
Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 185)