HEALTH QUOTES

quotations about health

If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

E. B. WHITE

letter to the New York Herald Tribune, November 29, 1947


Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

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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

When We Dead Awaken

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The thing most prejudicial to health is to be always thinking of it. It is, indeed, an indispensable requisite to the enjoyment of life and health, that little attention should be paid to little symptoms. One should not think himself dead until he is so.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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A Man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he love you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

LAUREN BACALL

Lauren Bacall By Myself

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You need to make good health a hobby.

JACK LALANNE

"Jack LaLanne on Aging Well", Tony Horton Life, December 18, 2010

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

War Speeches

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A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Wanderer and His Shadow

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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

DOROTHY PARKER

Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

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You can tell how healthy a man is by what he takes two at a time--stairs or pills.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


The relative value of health and wealth depends on which one you've lost.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Your health is number one. That's it. End of story! You can have a great marriage, a great career and a great family but taking care of your health has to come before everything else.

SOPHIE KELLER

How Happy Is Your Health?


Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The Rich stay healthy, the Sick stay poor.

BONO

"God Part II"

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Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.

JAMES THOMSON

The Castle of Indolence

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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this.... We have lost all confidence in the human body.

LEWIS THOMAS

The Medusa and the Snail


Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

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The first wealth is health.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Power,", The Conduct of Life

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

MARK TWAIN

attributed, Bite-Size Twain

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It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.

KATHRYN ANASTOS

New York Magazine, Dec. 21-28, 1992

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When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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