HEALTH QUOTES II

quotations about health

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

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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

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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

The Way of All Flesh


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

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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

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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

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Sermons

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If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

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Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, No. 387

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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

Proverbs in Prose

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Health is my expected heaven.

JOHN KEATS

Letters of John Keats

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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

CHARLES LAMB

Last Essays of Elia

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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

KURT VONNEGUT

Breakfast of Champions

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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


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

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Health will generally attend thee well if thou attend it well.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Over the Teacups

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

HERBERT SPENCER

Education

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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