Health Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 4



Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
De Saint-Real

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature does require
Her time of preservation, which perforce
I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal
Must give my attendance to.
William Shakespeare

It’s no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are “heal.”
Ed Northstrum

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney J. Harris

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.
Chu Hui Weng

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
Anonymous

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis

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)

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.
Yiddish Proverb

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy.
Izaak Walton

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)

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

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.
James Howell

An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa.
Madrianne Arvore

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Marcus Valerius Martial

Every man’s disease is his personal property.
Alonzo Clark

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Gustav Jung

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)

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Aldous Huxley

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
Albert Schweitzer

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.
Martin H. Fischer

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

Before healing others, heal yourself.
Anonymous

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.
Robert Hutchison

Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Cher

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