Quotes About Health

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.

A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Age 30 & the 30s. — Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.

Age 35. — Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

Age 40 & the 40s. — People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

Age 41. — I am forty-one years of age, and I feel myself begin to change, and to lose my health, natural spirits and strength.

Age 50. — When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The medicine man never cures his own illness.

Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat — at least not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I suggest that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.

Life without acupuncture is pointless.