Health Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 8



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

I’d heard it all the time, ‘Live in the moment.’ But if I did that, I’d weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn’t about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.
Stephanie Klein

To improve your memory, lend people money.
Anonymous

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Elbert Hubbard

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented.
Dr. Joseph Pizzorno

A harmonious relationship with one you love can enhance your work, health and entire well-being.
Doc Childre

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good — but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands.
Persius

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

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.
Albert Einstein

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams

My fat scares me – it’s a ticking time bomb.
Carrie Latet

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
Seneca

The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something.
Guindon Cartoon

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.
Jay Leno

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

Lord, if you can’t make me thin – can you make all my friends fat?
Judy Hampton

His idea of exercise is walking to his vitamins.
Casey Fenton

You can’t lose weight without exercise. But I’ve got a philosophy about exercise. I don’t think you should punish your legs for something your mouth did. Drag your lips around the block once or twice.
Gary Owens

My doctor said I look like a million dollars – green and wrinkled.
Red Skelton

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
Henry Lytton Bulwer

Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
A. P. Herbert

It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day.
Michael Miller

You don’t get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what’s eating you.
Vicki Baum

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas (The Medusa and the Snail, 1979)

My inner advisor is dying to heal me.
Astrid Alauda

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