Quotes About Prevention

but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. My HMO also says that's the best they can do for me.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

In cigarettes, we have pictures of blackened lungs on the packs. But packets of potato chips don't bear the picture of an obese heart patient, right?

Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorists blow up existing infrastructure such as roads, airports and power plants. Corruption prevents such infrastructure from being created in the first place. Terrorists take innocent lives. Corrupt politicians prevent hospitals from being built, which means that innocent lives that could be saved are not.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this — no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

During National Cancer Control Month, let us remember those who lost their battle with cancer, and let us renew our efforts to save lives and spare heartbreak by reaching a future without this devastating disease.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

A disease known is half cured.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

After all the stupid things I've done in my life, hope I don't die just because I touched my face.

So there is no cure for a virus that can be killed by soap and sanitizer?!

The best six doctors anywhere— And no one can deny it— Are Sunshine, Water, Rest and Air, Exercise and Diet. These six will gladly you attend, If only you are willing, Your mind they'll cheer, Your ills they'll mend, And charge you not one shilling.

Drinking and driving: there are stupider things, but it's a very short list.

The driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry.

Drive hammered, get nailed.

Stay alive, don't text and drive.

Buzzed driving is drunk driving.

Drunk driving is a killer disease.