What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
Illness Quotes
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. (The Tempest)
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world – when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. 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 […]
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
The water treatment was new, now, and Tom’s low condition was a windfall to her (Aunt Polly). She had him out at daylight every morning, stood him up in the woodshed and drowned him with a deluge of cold water; then she scrubbed him down with a towel like a file, and so brought him […]
