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Quotes About Health

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.
~ Michael Gurian
The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.
~ Milt Gross
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.
~ Nigel Slater
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
~ Paulo Coelho
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
~ Plutarch
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
~ Publilius Syrus
Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.
~ Rajneesh
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert A. Burton
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
~ Harriet Martineau
Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.
~ Harrison Ford
I know a guy who had his doctor say, "Take some weight off, go to a health club." The man lost 20 pounds in one week! The machine tore his leg off!
~ Henny Youngman
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.
~ Hilaire Belloc
My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.
~ Ian Holloway
If man makes it, I don't eat it!
~ Jack LaLanne
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
~ James Montgomery Bailey
As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.
~ Jay Ellis
A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.
~ Jay Leno
Have you ever seen that guy who has the record for fattest man in the world? Bob Hughes, the fattest man in the world... 1400 pounds. Ladies and gentlemen, the man has let himself go.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.
~ Joan Collins
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
~ John Dyer
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
~ John Ruskin