Thomas Fuller Quotes

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Prevention is better than cure.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

The health of our nation is the wealth of our nation.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

It is very important that we take care of our health.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

You can't take good health for granted.

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.