Health Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 3



Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Thomas Dekker (Westward Ho, 1604)

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.
Quentin Regestein

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Proverb

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice (Prenticeana, 1860)

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

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

If you don’t take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you.
Carrie Latet

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
Francis Bacon

Without health, there is no point. To anything.
Everett Mámor

Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away.
Robert Orben

Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.
Ariphron

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
William Londen

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
Martin H. Fischer

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I

When the head aches, all the body is the worse.
English Proverb

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates

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

Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.
Anonymous

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
Denis Diderot

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
Wendell Phillips

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Spanish Proverb

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
John Locke

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
Anonymous

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
Charles Caleb Colton

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.
Herophilus

Happiness? That’s nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Anonymous

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