Sick as a parrot.

-Anonymous
c.1978  Football cliche¤  . The phrase may have started life as'sick as a pierrot', an allusion to the sadfaced French Pierrot character of the18th century, but similar phrases appear in literature as early as the17th century.

Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.

-Austen,Jane
  Of heroines in novels. Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 Mar.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs13:12.

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them,They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.But go ye and learnwhat that meaneth,Iwill have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 9:12^13.

Heal the sick, cleansethe lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:8.

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and yegaveme drink: Iwas a stranger, and yetook me in: Naked,and ye clothedme: Iwassick, and yevisited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 25:35^6.

   When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them,They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 114

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 2:17.

I'll thcream and thcream and thcream until I'm thick.

-Crompton, Richmal originally Richmal Samuel Lamburn
 Violet Elizabeth. Stillö William, ch.8.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Considerations by the Way'.

   Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

-Ford, Henry
Attributed. US businessman, grandson of Henry Ford, president of the Ford Motor  Co  from 1945  and  chairman  from 1960.  He  introduced many modernizing measures.

Democracy is not a polite employer† The only way out of elective office is to get sick or die or get kicked out.

-Hoover, Herbert Clark
  The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, vol.2.

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make every one wretched for 24 hours.

-James, Alice
  Diary entry,11 Dec.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me.I am sickof both.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me intothegrave, and Ifeelsomething iswrong,Iwill get up.

-Lee, KuanYew
  Remark,  Aug. Quoted in C M  Turnbull  A History of Singapore (1989).

The people die so, that now it seems theyare fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Diary entry,12 Aug.

Only do always in health what you have often promised to do when you are sick.

-Sigismund
His advice for a happy life, quoted in Clifton Fadiman Faber Book of Anecdotes (1985).

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

-Sontag, Susan
  In the NewYork Review of Books, 26 Jan.

When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  AChild's Garden ofVerses, no.16,'The Landof Counterpane', stanza1.