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Quotes About Health

The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet...
~ Part of a nursery rhyme
I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands.
~ Terri Guillemets
Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.
~ Flemish Proverb
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.
~ @jacques_lakan, tweet, 2022
Someone has to stand up and say that the answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach.
~ Bill Maher, 2007
Wouldn't it be awful if spinach hain't really healthful after all th' trouble it takes t'git the sand out of it?
~ Kin Hubbard, 1929
For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.
~ Terri Guillemets
Persons living very entirely on vegetables are seldom of a plump and succulent habit.
~ William Cullen
Ripe 'sparagrass, Fit for lad or lass, To make their water pass: O, 'tis pretty picking With a tender chicken!
~ Jonathan Swift, "Asparagus"
Good health, yes, is partly genes Really though it's more about greens And other types of healthful things
~ Terri Guillemets
Golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.
~ Author Unknown
Verses of veggies poems of fruit dotted with seeds raw green rhymes in melodious bodies
~ Terri Guillemets
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Being a meat eater is really expensive, even if you don't count the cost of chemo.
~ Snargleplexon.com (@Veganism)
Vegetarians taste better.
~ Author Unknown
As to the pamphlet which he enclosed, proving vegetarianism to be an enfeebling and ultimately fatal practice, I confute it by the simple statement that I — Corno di Bassetto — have been a vegetarian these ten years. Pamphlet or no pamphlet, a mind the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
~ Bernard Shaw
Vegetarian contains both the words 'give' and 'get.'
~ J. L. W. Brooks
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!
~ Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.
~ Terri Guillemets
A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.
~ Korean proverb
Good wine makes good blood.
~ Italian proverb
Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.
~ Terri Guillemets