Health Quotations
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Martin H. Fischer
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| Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. |
| - Joseph Addison |
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| I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. |
| - Astrid Alauda |
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| To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. |
| - Henri Frédéric Amiel |
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| I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. |
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| Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. |
| - Robert Benchley |
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| Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. |
| - Thomas Browne |
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| I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. |
| - Lord Chesterfield |
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| The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. |
| - Sydney J. Harris |
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| If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. |
| - James Howell |
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| If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. |
| - Kin Hubbard |
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| Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! |
| - Charles Lamb |
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| Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. |
| - Doug Larson |
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| If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. |
| - John Locke |
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| If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. |
| - John Mortimer |
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| Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. |
| - George Jean Nathan |
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| Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. |
| - John Henry Cardinal Newman |
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| What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. |
| - George Dennison Prentice |
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| He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. |
| - Arab Proverb |
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| He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. |
| - Yiddish Proverb |
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| A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. |
| - Irish Proverb |
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| Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. |
| - Chi Chi Rodriguez |
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| Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. |
| - Jules Romains |
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| Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. |
| - Charles Simmons |
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| Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. |
| - Susan Sontag |
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| May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after! |
| - Philip Dormer Stanhope |
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| People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. |
| - Laurence Sterne |
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| It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. |
| - Meryl Streep |
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| As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. |
| - Lewis Thomas |
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| Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The greatest wealth is health. |
| - Virgil |
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