Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.
—Martin H. Fischer
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
If you want to know if your brain is flabby feel of your legs.
—Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886–1967) American Author, Advertising Executive, Politician
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.
—Unknown
We create our fate every day … most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound
—Common Proverb
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.
—Ellen DeGeneres (b.1958) American Comedian, Television Host
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
—Chinese Proverb
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
—Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960) American Columnist, Radio Personality, Author
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
—Irish Proverb
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
—Danish Proverb
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
If you want to earn more-learn more. If you want to get more out of the world you must put more into the world. For, after all, men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
—William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister
The healthy die first.
—Italian Proverb
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
—Chinese Proverb
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
Like everybody else, when I don’t know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
—George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American Drama Critic, Editor
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
—James Thurber
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning’s roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
There is a certain state of health that does not allow us to understand everything; and perhaps illness shuts us off from certain truths; but health shuts us off just as effectively from others.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher