quotations about health
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
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
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
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
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
A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Wanderer and His Shadow
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?
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
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER
Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
You need to make good health a hobby.
JACK LALANNE
"Jack LaLanne on Aging Well", Tony Horton Life, December 18, 2010
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
JAMES THOMSON
The Castle of Indolence
The relative value of health and wealth depends on which one you've lost.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
War Speeches
The first wealth is health.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Power,", The Conduct of Life
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
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
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"
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
MARK TWAIN
attributed, Bite-Size Twain