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

health

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 quotes from Albert Einstein

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 more views from Henrik Ibsen

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

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

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 sayings from Josh Billings

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 quotes from George Herbert

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

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

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 more views from John Muir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The body is a sacred garment. 5 more quotes from Martha Graham

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

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

The first wealth is health. 135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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 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 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 sayings from George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. 19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung

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

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. 6 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. 26 more wisdom & wit 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

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

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

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

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

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

Cynicism is humor in ill health. 19 more thoughts from H. G. Wells

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. 15 other quotes 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

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 thoughts 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 more views from William Penn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. 39 wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson

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 more thoughts from Laurence Sterne

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

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 thoughts from Mark Twain

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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

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 quotes from Alex Ferguson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. 17 other 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 sayings 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 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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