Quotes About Health

When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity, she replied, "Red meat and gin."

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

You are a big country now, but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold, you get pneumonia.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease, her husband leaves her in nine out often cases; when a man contracts it, his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whisky.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

All excess is ill, but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

I've noticed the customers in health food stores. They are pale, skinny people who usually look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.