Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wiltthou loveher, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.

Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as 142 ye both shall live?

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.

Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

-Campion,Thomas
  Fourth Book of  Airs,'Fain Would I  Wed'.

Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.

-Cleveland,John
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

   I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor mortis conturbat me.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
c.1505  'Lament for the Makaris', stanza1. The Latin is from the Office for the Dead:'The fear of death disturbs me'.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'The Convalescent'.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

-Lamb, Charles
  Last Essays of Elia,'The Convalescent'.

Four spectres haunt the pooröold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech, Reading,1  Jan.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

-Trillin, Calvin Marshall
  The Liberal Imagination,'Art and Neurosis'.