Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Sickness

• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

• Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, World, Ponds

  Benjamin Franklin, “Death Is A Fisherman”

• We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Sickness, Sensible

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Sick, Too Late

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disease, Bears, Sickness

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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