Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

health

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 quotes from Josh Billings

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

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. 4 other wisdom & wit from Giacomo Casanova

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

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 views from John Muir

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 other quotes from George Herbert

The body is a sacred garment. 5 other views from Martha Graham

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. 9 other wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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

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

Health consists with temperance alone. 43 other quotes from Alexander Pope

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

The first wealth is health. 135 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We drink one another's health and spoil our own. 7 wisdom & wit from Jerome K. Jerome

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. 24 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison

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

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 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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 other sayings from Ashley Montagu

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere

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

I've always enjoyed poor health. 10 sayings from Taylor Caldwell

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

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

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

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 other views from Clara Schumann

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. 26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno

Cynicism is humor in ill health. 19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells

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

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

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 views from William Temple

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

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

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. 4 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Tusser

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. 100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit 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

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

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything. 58 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

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

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. 4 quotes 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 more quotes from Alex Ferguson

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

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

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 other quotes from Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 other views from Albert Einstein

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

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 other quotes from Henrik Ibsen

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