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Quotes About Health

Eat less sugar — you're sweet enough already.
~ Author Unknown
I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.
~ Author Unknown
Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.
~ Author Unknown
I'm doing my part to stay healthy by eating more hole foods.
~ Internet meme, c. 2016
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine.
~ Slovakian Proverb
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man...
~ Henry David Thoreau
Filthy water cannot be washed.
~ African Proverb
I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven. I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Full many a man, both young and old, Is brought to his sarcophagus, By pouring water, icy cold, Adown his warm æsophagus.
~ Foote's Monthly, 1890
Here's to old Adam's crystal ale, Clear, sparkling, and divine, Fair H2O, long may you flow! We drink your health (in wine).
~ Oliver Herford
I am better in health, avoiding all fermented liquors, and drinking nothing but London water, with a million insects in every drop. He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.
~ Sydney Smith, 1834
Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.
~ Author Unknown
You know you're a grown-up when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.
~ Author Unknown
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
~ Samuel Johnson
Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.
~ Author Unknown
To many of us, the first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
~ Isaac Asimov
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books — how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
~ Andy Rooney, 1982
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.
~ E. W. Howe
When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
~ Ayurvedic proverb
Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.
~ Bryan Miller
15% gym, 85% diet. Abs are made in the kitchen, not the workout room.
~ Author Unknown
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
~ English proverb
A man has often more trouble to digest food than to get it.
~ Proverb