Health Quotes

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

Sir John Lubbock

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

Bill Vaughan

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A healthy family is sacred territory.

Unknown

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

Sydney Smith

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all - - Friends?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Joseph Addison

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

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

C. C. Colton

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Good friends are good for your health.

Dr. Irwin Sarason

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

Washington Irving

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

Wendell Berry

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Arab Prove

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Redd Foxx

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.

C. C. Colton

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Will Durant

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

E. B. White

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Euripides, Electra, 413 B. C.

The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.

Charles Churchill

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser, 1524

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Krishnamurti

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats