Famous Health Quotes
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"As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work." Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet. |
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"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician. |
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"There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it." Josh Billings (1815-1885) American humorist and lecturer. |
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"Energy is eternal delight." William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter. |
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." Buddah (563 BC-483 BC) Founder of Buddhism. |
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset." Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic. |
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"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!" Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist. |
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"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied." Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author. |
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"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend." Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author. |
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer. "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer. |
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"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher. "To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher. |
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"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 (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist. |
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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed." Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet. |
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"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States. |
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"Health is my expected heaven." John Keats (1795-1821) British poet. |
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"It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen." Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer. |
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"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet. |
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"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad." William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader. |
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"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance." Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher. |
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"Health consists with temperance alone." Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist. |
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"A feeble body weakens the mind." Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss political philosopher and essayist. |
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"One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British logician and philosopher. |
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"Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer. |
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"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy." Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) British writer. |
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"All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay." Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) Roman historian. |
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"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher. |
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer. "The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer. |
