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

health

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

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

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

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.

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

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

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

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

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

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

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.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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.

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.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

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.

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.

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

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

The first wealth is health.

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

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

The body is a sacred garment.

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Health consists with temperance alone.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

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

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

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.

A woman's health is her capital.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

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.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

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

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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?

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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