Not all diseases are caused by viruses or bacteria. Read this collection of proverbs and quotes about disease and sickness.
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A disease known is half cured.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.Preventing problems is better than letting them happen and finding a solution afterwards.
Better a sick body than an ignorant mind.
Better ten times ill than one time dead.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.William Golding
Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.John H. Tobe
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.Barry Commoner
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.Charlotte Brontë
Source: Jane Eyre
Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.Steven Berkoff
For more information on lung cancer, keep smoking.(unknown author)
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.Stephen Hawking
Life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.Steven Pinker
Love is a serious mental disease.Plato
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.Arnold Sommerfeld
Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.Albert Einstein
Old age is a disease that you die from.
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.Uri Geller
Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.
Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.Matthew Walker
Stupidity is a disease without a medicine.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.Princess Diana
The cure may be worse than the disease.
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.David Byrne
There is no physician who can cure the disease of love.
viruses are contagiousCaroline Leaf
so is panic
fear
hysteria
calm
love
enthusiasm
kindness
joy
choose wisely
When I am dying, I should like my life to be taken out under a general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.Richard Dawkins
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.Robert M. Pirsig
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
You cannot discuss your malaria problem with a mosquito.