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NOTE: Some of the quotes on this page were submitted to me by visitors, and not all have been verified for original source or wording. I'm working hard to confirm everything, but in the meantime please be aware of the possibility for errors.
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, 1870s
I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. F'r all ye know, it may be a short note to th' druggist askin' him to hit ye on th' head with a pestle. ~Finley Peter Dunne, "Mr. Dooley on Drugs," in McPike's Bi-Monthly, 1907
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson
To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher, 1867
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. ~Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn
If you're going through hell, keep on going. ~Author unknown, modification of an anonymous quotation from around the 1940s [quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going]
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey
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