Quotes About Health

When in doubt about drinking from an unknown spring look for life. If the water is scummed with algae, crawling with worms, grubs, larvae, spiders and liver flukes, be reassured, drink hearty, you'll get nothing worse than dysentery. But if it appears innocent and pure, beware.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Whatever the cost, however financed, the benefits for park visitors in health and happiness--virtues unknown to statisticians--would be immeasurable.

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Lo que nosotros conocemos como enfermedad no es más que la etapa terminal de un desorden mucho más profundo, y es obvio que para asegurar el éxito completo de un tratamiento, enfrentar solamente el resultado final no será totalmente efectivo, a menos que también erradiquemos las causas primigenias.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

But dream not of freedom for the whole while you enslave the parts; the heart must be the centre of the system, the blood must circulate freely everywhere; and in vast communities you behold but a bloated and feeble giant, whose brain is imbecile, whose limbs are dead, and who pays in disease and weakness the penalty of transcending the natural proportions of health and vigour.

For any sustained and more or less original work it seems most necessary that one should have the quietude and strength of Nature at hand, like a great reservoir from which to draw. The open air, and the physical and mental health that goes with it, the sense of space and freedom of the Sky, the vitality and amplitude of the Earth -- these are real things from which one can only cut oneself off at serious peril and risk to one's immortal soul.

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

Four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.

Look Ma! No cavities!

Dr Williams' pink pills for pale people.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.

Builds Strong Bodies 12 Ways.

Kills all known germs.

Eat clean; train dirty.

The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead.

Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.

I don't do alcohol anymore — I get the same effect just standing up fast.

Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love.