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Quotes About Health

Dr. Tilden is... a medical heretic. He has broken away entirely from the tenets of the regular school of medicine and burnt the bridges behind him: he does not resort to medicine as a cure for sickness, but cures by correcting the patient's diet and other habits of living.
~ Helen Sayr Gray
One doctor makes work for another.
~ English proverb
Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
~ James Bryce (1838–1922)
HYGIENE. Bacteriology made moral...
~ H. L. Mencken
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.
~ Chinese proverb
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962
"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A surgeon should be young, a physician old.
~ Proverb
Did you ever have the measles, and if so, how many?
~ Artemus Ward, c. 1860
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
~ French proverb
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
~ African Proverb
Christyan Scientists think they'se no such thing as disease, an' doctors think there ain't annythin' else.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle.
~ David McCord
If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine you probably should've been seeing a doctor long before COVID-19.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
I am pleased that lying on the sofa being a slob is finally considered the responsible thing to do.
~ Matt Haig, March 2020
Does anyone know if we can shower now? Or should we just keep washing our hands?
~ Internet meme, March 2020
I need to do some social distancing from the refrigerator.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
The World Health Organization announced that dogs cannot contract COVID-19. Canines previously held in quarantine may now be released. To summarize: WHO let the dogs out.
~ Internet meme, April 2020
Better six feet apart than six feet under.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
COVID spreads mainly by nose and mouth but scientists warn that the greatest danger is from [a$$ h ø ? ê s].
~ Internet meme, 2020
Coughing is the new farting.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
After all the stupid things I've done in my life, hope I don't die just because I touched my face.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
So there is no cure for a virus that can be killed by soap and sanitizer?!
~ Internet meme, March 2020
So after this is all over, do the producers of My 600 Pound Life find me or do I need to find them?
~ Internet meme, March 2020