Illness

Illness or sickness is the physical consequence of having a disease or other medical condition, typified by things such as weakness, discomfort, coughing, sneezing, and nausea.

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• 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, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 13.

• A malady
  Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.
  • Charles Maturin, Bertram (first staged May 9, 1816), Act IV, scene 2.

• This sickness doth infect
  The very life-blood of our enterprise.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act IV, scene 1, line 28.

• 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 colour fly,
  And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
  Did lose his lustre.
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 119.

• What, is Brutus sick,
  And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,
  To dare the vile contagion of the night?
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act II, scene 1, line 263.

• My long sickness
  Of health and living now begins to mend,
  And nothing brings me all things.
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act V, scene 1, line 189.

• 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, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire V, line 185.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 706-07.

• But when ill indeed,
  E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
  • George Colman the Younger, Broad Grins, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen, Stanza 7.

• Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.
  • Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, Chapter XIV.

• Prevention is better than cure.
  • Erasmus, Adagia. Same idea in Ovid—De Remedia Amoris. 91. Persius—Satires, III. 63. Livy—Works, III. 61 and V. 36.

• I've that within for which there are no plasters.
  • David Garrick, 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, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Old Manse, The Procession of Life.

• The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isaiah. I. 5.

• An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draäins,
  For she bedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paäins.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Village Wife.