Famous Health Quotations
filed in Health on Feb.01, 2009
When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay down and relax for a while before trying to get back up. ~Candea Core-Starke
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
I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. ~Astrid Alauda
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 labor 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
If your body’s not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself. ~V.L. Allineare
After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. ~James Howell
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~V.L. Allineare
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~Francis Bacon
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~James H. West
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
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond
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
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating
It’s no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are “heal.” ~Ed Northstrum
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964
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
It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. ~Jackie Mason
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
set up the sneeze and wheeze
To rhyme so very perfectly
with the word for allergies?
~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
My fat scares me - it’s a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer
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
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