Quotes About Health

The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.

Health is not valued until sickness comes.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe. [Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

Have you ever noticed those people whom you see jogging day after day? They are the ones who seem not to need to jog. But that's why they are fit. Those who are wealthy work at staying financially fit. But those who are not financially fit do little to change their status.

Of all exercises walking is the best.

I have lived temperately . . . I double the doctors recommendation of a glass and a half of wine a day and even treble it with a friend.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Health is worth more than learning.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . .

We never regret having eaten too little.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.