Health Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Josh Billings

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
Leslie Grimutter

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

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no “I’ll start tomorrow.” Tomorrow is disease.
V.L. Allineare

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.
Catalan Proverb

We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
Hannah Green

Healthy people are invalids who don’t know it.
Jules Romains (Dr. Knock, 1923)

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

Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it.
Benjamin Franklin

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
Wayne Fields (Nursery rhyme, What the River Knows, 1990)

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Robert A. Heinlein

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
A.J. Reb Materi

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Henry Ward Beecher

Hear your heart. Heart your health.
Faith Seehill

Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
Seneca

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus

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

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
Nikolai Lenin

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
Angela Lansbury

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
Tommy Smothers