| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Sickness |
| | | Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for thee. Spanish. | 1 |
| Be lang sick that you may be soon hale. | 2 |
| He is in great danger who being sick thinks himself well. | 3 |
| In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew. Pliny. | 4 |
| It is better to be sick than care for the sick. Turkish. | 5 |
| It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick. | 6 |
| Sickness comes in haste and goes at leisure. Danish. | 7 |
| Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot. Dutch. | 8 |
| Sickness comes uninvited; no need to bespeak it. Danish. | 9 |
| Sickness is every man’s master. Danish. | 10 |
| Sickness is felt but health not at all. | 11 |
| Sickness tells us what we are. | 12 |
| Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor as well as mine. | 13 |
| The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion. | 14 |
| The sick man is free to say all. Italian. | 15 |
| The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall. German. | 16 |
| The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot. Italian. | 17 |
| The sickness of the body may prove the health of the soul. | 18 |
| “Who can escape sickness?” quoth the drunken wife when she lay in the gutter. | 19 | | |
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