quotations about health
Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies.
JOHN GAY
Fables
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 rather not.
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?
SARAH N. CLEGHORN
Threescore
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
The Way of All Flesh
What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
KEITH OLBERMANN
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Oct. 7, 2009
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Proverbs in Prose
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
JIMMY CARTER
Everything to Gain
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, No. 387
If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
CHARLES LAMB
Last Essays of Elia
Health is my expected heaven.
JOHN KEATS
Letters of John Keats
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.
JULES ROMAINS
Dr. Knock
The picture of health requires a happy frame of mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
KURT VONNEGUT
Breakfast of Champions
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
VOLTAIRE
"Physicians,", Philosophical Dictionary
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCER
Education
Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than the rich man that is afflicted in his body; health and a good state of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth; there are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above that of health.
SIRACH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Health will generally attend thee well if thou attend it well.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Over the Teacups