To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
— Benjamin Franklin
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
— François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
— George Burns
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he
killed himself.
— Johnny Carson
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
— Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Money, achievement, fame, and success are important, but they are bought too
dearly when acquired at the cost of health.
— Unknown wise person
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future,
or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and
earnestly.
— Buddha
The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one.
There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
— Richard Bach in Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul
The best choice you can make for the health of your body and mind is to take control of your diet
one bite at a time.
— Jenny Ross
The things that are most precious to the human soul are those that are
beyond price — integrity, true friendship, health, achievement, reputation, true courage, great character,
gratitude, greatness, emotional stability, common sense, self-esteem, creativity, wisdom, spiritual
fulfillment, and peace of mind. These can’t be rented, bought, or sold — regardless of how much money you
acquire.
— from Life’s Secret
Handbook
Food can heal. Food can be your medicine. Food has POWER!
— Diana Herrington
From the bitterness of disease man learns
the sweetness of health.
— Catalan proverb
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you —
all of the expectations, all of the beliefs, all of the assumptions, — and becoming who you are.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
You can have vibrant health in your 90’s. It starts with doing something enjoyable every day. Start
now!
— Christiane Northrup, M.D.
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
— Italian proverb
Overall health has been shown to drastically improve in direct relationship to how much plant-based
eating you’re doing.
— Jenny Ross
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest
would gladly part with all their money for health.
— Charles Caleb Cotton
It’s amazing that simply eating a healthy diet can have such a profound impact on your life.
— Vijay Vad, M.D.
In order to optimize your health, begin noticing the frequency of any
thoughts that support the idea of sickness as something to be expected — then eliminate these thought
frequencies from your mind.
— Dr. Wayne Dyer
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
— Edward Hoagland
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.
— Henrik Ibsen
Any man who can get out of bed in the morning is in pretty good shape. Ask any man who
can't.
— Unknown wise senior
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach.
It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
— Jean Cocteau
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
— George Bernard Shaw
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any
others: health and money.
— Helen Gurley Brown
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
— John Mortimer
It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.
— Dave Barry
I'm not unwell. I'm f*cking dying.
— Jeffrey Bernard (to Dominic Lawson of The Spectator)
Get-well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're
missing a lot of fun.
— Anon wise person
Drinking strong wine cures hunger.
— Hippocrates
In the midst of your illness you will promise a goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will seem
sufficient.
— African proverb
Loss of teeth and marriage spoil a woman’s beauty.
— African proverb
My aunt died of influenza: so they said. But it's my belief they done the old woman in.
— George Bernard Shaw
What good are vitamins? Eat four lobsters, eat a pound of caviar — live! If you are in love
with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brain at all, don't be afraid, marry her —
live!
— Arthur Rubinstein
Nor bring to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name.
— Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
— Alvan L. Barach, US physician, New York
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.
— George Bernard Shaw
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
— Cicero
Many people suffer poor health, not because of what they
eat, but from what is eating them.
— Anonymous wise person
Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're
thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
— Al Neuharth
A good laugh is the best medicine, whether you are sick or not.
— Unknown retiree
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
— Cicero
By the time most people discover that good health is
everything, they've lost it.
— Unknown wise person
The keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight.
— Cicero
The appetites of the belly and the palate, far from diminishing as men grow older, go on increasing.
— Cicero
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
— Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die earlier than those who are slender.
— Hippocrates, Greek physician
He who has good health is young.
— H.G. Bohn
You want to go easy on the suicide stuff — first thing you know, you'll ruin your
health.
— Robert Benchley
If a child is constantly sick, it is due to overfeeding.
— Anton Chekhov
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
In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
— Benjamin Franklin
After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse.
— W. C. Fields
To eat is human, to digest divine.
— Charles T. Copeland
Be not sick too late, or well too soon.
— Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
— Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
— Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth
Most medical fads are like some women’s fashions — frail, fickle and costly.
— Noah D. Fabricant
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
— Cyril Connolly, British journalist and writer
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and
disappointment.
— Cyril Connolly
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not
interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in
touch with reality.
— Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
— Cyril Connolly
A dry cough is the trumpeter of death.
— English proverb
A small hurt in the eye is a great one.
— English proverb
A wound heals but the scar remains.
— English proverb
Die well that live well.
— English proverb
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
— English proverb
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
— English proverb
Never rub your eye but with your elbow.
— English proverb
Physicians’ faults are covered with earth, and rich men’s with money.
— English proverb
They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young.
— English proverb
Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.
— English proverb
When the head aches, all the body is the worse.
— English sailors’ proverb
Short men eat more than tall men.
— French proverb
Every month, one should get drunk at least once.
— French proverb
L’amour de la médicine fait le savant;
L’amour du malade fait le médicin.
(Love of medicine makes the scholar;
Love of illness makes the doctor)
— French proverb
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is
great.
— Henry IV, King of France
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with
us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead,
since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
— Epicurus, Greek philosopher
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to
bed.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish novelist
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
— Mark Twain
Eat cereal for breakfast and write good prose.
— Raymond Carver
Don't die.
— William M. Gaines
Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation.
— Benjamin Franklin
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
— William Penn
Eat to live, live not to eat. Three good meals a day is bad living.
— Benjamin Franklin
Dine with little, sup with less: do better still: sleep supperless.
— Benjamin Franklin
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
— Benjamin Franklin
Hold your counsel before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.
— Benjamin Franklin
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
— Benjamin Franklin
The two best things I ever did for my health was quit smoking and
get fired from my last real job, never to return to another.
— from Career Success WITHOUT a Real Job
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, Whom, snoring, she disturbs.
— William Cowper
Nothing trivial, I hope.
— John Pentland MahafFy, (On hearing of the illness of Troill, who in 1904 had beaten him for the
Provostship of Trinity Dublin)
My aunt died of influenza: so they said. But it's my belief they done the
old woman in.
— George Bernard Shaw
This cough I've got is hacking, The pain in my head is wracking,
I hardly need to mention my flu.
The Board of Health has seen me
They want to quarantine me,
I might as well be miserable with you.
— Howard Dietz
In other words just from waiting around For that plain little band of gold
A person ... can develop a cold.
You can spray her wherever you figure the streptococci lurk.
You can give her a shot for whatever she's got but it just won't work.
— Frank Loesser
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
— William 0sler
Piles are a Jewish man's affliction. Piles and mothers. What causes them?
— Stephen Fry
The physical condition of a man can best be judged from what he takes two of at a time — stairs or
pills.
— Unknown wise person
Specialization has reached such a state today that patients have to learn to diagnose themselves before
they know which specialist to call.
— Unknown wise person
There are only two classes of people — those who have ulcers, and those who give them. I prefer to be in
the later group.
— Unknown wise person
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
— Jackie Mason
The only way to keep your good health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do
what you'd rather not do.
— Unknown wise person
The way some people treat their bodies you'd think they were opposed to good health and did not want to
reach retirement age.
— Unknown wise person
If you drink too often to other retirees' health, you will surely ruin your own.
— Unknown wise person
The best health insurance is moderation.
— Unknown wise person
It is generally believed that Medicare will soon bring nervous breakdowns within the reach of
everybody.
— Unknown wise person
The secret of good health is to leave the table hungry, the bed sleepy, and the tavern thirsty.
— Unknown retiree
The first health hazard in smoking a pipe is high blood pressure caused by trying to keep the thing
lit.
— Unknown wise person
A great deal of poor health in this country may be attributed to heavy meals and light work.
— Unknown wise person
The trouble with our health is not that we are all run down, but that we are all wound up.
— Unknown wise person
The human body, with proper care, will last a lifetime.
— Unknown wise person
Mental health has become such an issue today that many people go crazy in pursuit of it.
— Unknown wise person
Nothing in recent years seems to have improved the health of the American people as much as the
staggering cost of being sick.
— Unknown wise person
The relative values of health and wealth depend on which you have left.
— Unknown wise person
You need to start worrying about health if you can't sleep when it's time to get up.
— Unknown wise person
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
— Unknown wise person
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
— Unknown wise person
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