Quotes About Health

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

Doctor, feel my purse.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

Invalids live longest.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

Physician, heal thyself.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

I'm a most lucky and thankful woman. Lucky and thankful for each morning I wake up. For three wonderful daughters and one son. For an understanding and very loving husband with whom I've shared fifty-two blessed years, all in good health.

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.