Quotes About Health

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

How are you feeling?' I asked. 'Fine,' he replied with a tired smile. 'Well done!' I replied, as I think patients need to be congratulated for their surviving just as much as the surgeons should be congratulated for doing their job well. 'It's

Cavalier King Charles spaniels, we learnt, often suffer from the brain abnormality known as a Chiari malformation, which humans also get. Labradors can develop malignant meningiomas. The spaniels' problem is the result of selective breeding aimed to produce the small round head which wins points at dog shows. The malformation leads to spinal cord damage, and the poor creatures suffer from intractable pain and scratch themselves incessantly.

Few – if any – of these patients would survive or emerge unscathed from whatever it was that had damaged their brains.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices

Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

When a doktor looks me square in the face and kant see no money in me, then i am happy.

Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, affection, hatred, passion, went its way, as always, independently, apart from the political amity or enmity of Napoleon Bonaparte, and apart from all possible reforms.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Prevention is better than cure,