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Sick Quotes - Page 24

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

"This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. February 18, 2014.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.178

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too.

Anne Mazer (2005). “The amazing days of Abby Hayes: volume one”

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

William Wilberforce (2003). “A Practical View: Of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.389, Wipf and Stock Publishers