Quotes About Health

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

Then they labour anxiously, when they overdo it, to the loss of their quiet and health: then distrustfully, when they doubt God's providence, thinking that their own labour is the cause of their thriving, as if it were in their own hands to thrive or not to thrive. Then they labour profanely, when they set themselves to work like brute beasts, never raising their thoughts to God, nor sanctifying their labour with daily prayer; when on the Lord's day they do unnecessary servile work

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow. The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against "intensive farming," and the harm it does to us and our world. But the problem is not the adjective. It's the noun.

I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.

I seldom fling children off the tops of towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it.

His blood is bad. He needs to be leeched. The leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. No man can think so full of anger.

Ser Barristan wrinkled up his nose, and said, "Your Grace should not be here, breathing these black humors.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don't make anybody long-lived or useful.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Becoming an ex-alcoholic, however, is not easy. Drink may be futile and ultimately degrading, but only the fortunate drinker discovers this. And it is the even more fortunate one who then comes upon a new and healthy path to the summit of his physical and mental powers. Before the liver goes, the heart enlarges and the brain begins to deteriorate, he must get the message that there is a better way to experience himself and the universe. My

With the publication of Running & Being in 1978, George Sheehan's voice became the voice of a movement, sounding a clarion call to hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their sedentary ways, take to the streets, and run. Today, there are millions of us lacing up our running shoes, training for 5-Ks, 10-Ks, half-marathons, and marathons—each trudging the same path of fitness and self-discovery that he blazed decades before.

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.