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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. ~G.K.
Chesterton
There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their
health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common
sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter
around…. Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been
recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing. ~Redd Foxx
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
~Author Unknown
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
~Chinese Proverb
If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of
myself. ~Leon Eldred
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark
Twain
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
~Tommy Smothers
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
~Chi Chi Rodriguez
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed
higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Like everybody else, when I don’t know what else to do, I seem to go in for
catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of
the body. ~Cicero
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and
happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
~Elbert Hubbard
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.
~Laurence Sterne
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning’s roses, one has to have just escaped
from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my
confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John
Redman Coxe, 1800
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
~Irish Proverb
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the
coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of
consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
~Henry Lytton Bulwer
The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.
~Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A
Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies
stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison
Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance
unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have
examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that
fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the
thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but
once. ~Thomas Browne
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t
much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice,Prenticeana,
1860
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot
through the grass. ~Terri Guillemets
We drink one another’s health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When
one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of
the soul open. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. ~Charles
Simmons
Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a
sound body.) ~Juvenal
~William Shakespeare
Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
~Josh Billings
A healthy body and soul come from an unencumbered mind and body.
~Ymber Delecto
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let
life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you
paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker,Westward
Ho, 1604
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry
Cardinal Newman
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither
them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~Francis
Bacon
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he
is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s
health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep
Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy. ~Author
Unknown
~John Armstrong
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good
rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into
your eyes, is really one of life’s sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley,
"Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and
sideways, 1932
Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or
Temperance. ~Joseph Addison
A bad cold wouldn’t be so annoying if it weren’t for the advice of our
friends. ~Kin Hubbard
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by
them. ~Aldous Huxley
If you don’t take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that
responsibility for you. ~Carrie Latet
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an
ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that
will be useless in our hands. ~John Locke
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng
When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb
Healthy people are invalids who don’t know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock,
1923
After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve
health. ~James Howell
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by
nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward
Jenner
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a
sickness. ~DeForest Clinton Jarvis
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their
origin there. ~Moliere
Listen to music.
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and
in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good
passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify
ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as
Metaphor, 1977
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the
birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it,
but the latter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its
resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to
spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other
men’s necessities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health
the better. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891
First need in the reform of hospital management? That’s easy! The death of
all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H. Fischer
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic
Proverb
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may,
after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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
If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not
do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen
hours longer than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown
May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather
die before you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope,
1749
What linguistic genius
~Charlie N. Abbers
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good
health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J. Harris
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend
their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin
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 druther not. ~Mark Twain