Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

health

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. 10 quotes from Og Mandino

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. 30 other views from Gustave Flaubert

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. 4 other wisdom & wit from Redd Foxx

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. 2 wisdom & wit from Alex Ferguson

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. 68 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. 7 thoughts from Samuel Smiles

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. 8 quotes from Quentin Crisp

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. 37 more views from Edmund Burke

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. 3 quotes from Thomas Dekker

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. 30 more quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

Health is not valued till sickness comes. 45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. 15 more quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. 17 views from Plutarch

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. 23 wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. 8 more quotes from Tryon Edwards

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. 21 more thoughts from W. H. Auden

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. 29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness lies first of all in health. 6 other sayings from George William Curtis

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. 11 thoughts from Henrik Ibsen

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. 18 more thoughts from Jean Paul

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. 7 other quotes from Gloria Swanson

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. 20 views from Herbert Spencer

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. 42 more sayings from Josh Billings

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. 4 more quotes from Giacomo Casanova

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health. 12 sayings from George Herbert

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. 13 quotes from John Muir

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health. 6 more sayings from John Cameron

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight. 7 more quotes from Kate Smith

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. 10 other quotes from Patrick Henry

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. 4 wisdom & wit from Robert Hall

The body is a sacred garment. 5 wisdom & wit from Martha Graham

The first wealth is health. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. 135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. 52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. 9 other quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. 9 other thoughts from Jiddu Krishnamurti

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. 14 views from Audrey Hepburn

Health consists with temperance alone. 43 thoughts from Alexander Pope

We drink one another's health and spoil our own. 7 other sayings from Jerome K. Jerome

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. 2 other thoughts from Gene Tunney

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. 43 more quotes from Alexander Pope

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. 24 quotes from Joseph Addison

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. 21 thoughts from Karl Marx

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? 9 wisdom & wit from Adam Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. 7 quotes from Sydney Smith

A woman's health is her capital. 7 more quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. 15 thoughts from Norman Cousins

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. 6 quotes from Ashley Montagu

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. 2 wisdom & wit from Gilbert Highet

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. 19 views from Alexis de Tocqueville

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. 8 sayings from Mary Baker Eddy

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. 6 more quotes from Lionel Trilling

Writing is hard work and bad for the health. 19 thoughts from E. B. White

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. 117 other views from Henry David Thoreau

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. 5 other quotes from Aphra Behn

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. 19 more thoughts from Carl Jung

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. 4 other quotes from Jean Piaget

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. 5 other quotes from Ingrid Bergman

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. 15 more thoughts from John Locke

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. 3 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Wilson

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. 24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. 26 quotes from Theodor Adorno

Cynicism is humor in ill health. 19 other quotes from H. G. Wells

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. 15 views from Cyril Connolly

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? 2 quotes from Clara Schumann

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health. 5 views from James Thomson

I've always enjoyed poor health. 10 more wisdom & wit from Taylor Caldwell

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. 4 quotes from Thomas Tusser

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. 6 quotes from William Temple

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. 2 more quotes from Catherine Helen Spence

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. 15 sayings from William Penn

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. 6 sayings from Rutherford B. Hayes

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them. 13 sayings from Mahalia Jackson

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. 98 views from Mark Twain

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. 14 quotes from Laurence Sterne

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. 14 other quotes from Laurence Sterne

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. 39 other sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. 10 other views from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. 8 quotes from Franklin P. Adams

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. 2 quotes from Philip Sidney

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. 4 views from Clarence Day