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Quotes About Health

I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.
~ Winston Graham
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Dormía, corrientemente, una hora más por la mañana; me llamaban a las ocho en vez de las siete, y, si era posible, echaba una siesta de una hora después de almorzar. Esto me permitía trabajar continuamente hasta la una o las dos de la noche sin sentirme fatigado.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Oare insuficenÈ›a,afiÈ™at? ziua în amiaza mare,setoas? de onoruri,poate fi s?n?toas? È™i oare nu trebuie s? provoace sughiÈ›uri naturii?
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Half a century after Linnaeus, Samuel Hahnemann, the homeopath, paraphrased the same thought. Coffee creates an artificially heightened sense of being, according to Hahnemann; presence of mind, alertness, and empathy are all elevated more than in a healthy natural condition; but, he goes on, these effects are unhealthy, in that they throw life off its natural rhythm, which consists in an alteration of wakefulness and sleepiness.
~ Unknown
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college
~ Woody Allen
The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.
~ Woody Allen
I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
~ Woody Allen
I'm an alarmist, not a hypochondriac
~ Woody Allen
If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.
~ Woody Allen
I began getting nauseated often, usually in the dead of night. I attributed it either to a fatal disease or her cooking, but my yearly physical had me in good health and the middle-of-the-night nausea set in even if we ate out.
~ Woody Allen
I had a myocardial infarction that registered at the oceanography lab in Tokyo.
~ Woody Allen
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to a hundred.
~ Woody Allen
And even as you're working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
~ Xenophon
He neglected not his own body, and praised not those that neglected theirs.  In like manner, he blamed the custom of some who eat too much, and afterwards use violent exercises; but he approved of eating till nature be satisfied, and of a moderate exercise after it, believing that method to be an advantage to health, and proper to unbend and divert the mind. 
~ Xenophon
When soldiers are sick or wounded, doctors can fix them up, but you've got to save them from falling ill in the first place.
~ Xenophon
It is the same with horses and with men: all distempers in the early stage are more easily cured than when they have become chronic and have been wrongly treated.
~ Xenophon
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
~ Yann Martel
I must go the washroom. I've shaken a lot of hands.
~ Yann Martel
If you become sick yourself, don't waste your vomit by sending it overboard. Vomit makes an excellent border guard. Puke on the edges of your territory.
~ Yann Martel
Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.
~ Yann Martel
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
~ Christopher Hitchens