Health Quotes

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

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

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

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

Mark Twain

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.

James Thurbe

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

Wendell Berry

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

Aristotle

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Carl Gustav Jung

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

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

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

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitze

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

Redd Foxx

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

Arab Prove

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

Sydney Smith

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butle

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.

Benjamin Spock

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

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

C. C. Colton

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Og Mandino

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

Author Unknown

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

English Prove

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

John Dewey

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

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert F. Bennett

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Ke

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - But not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire