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Quotes About Health

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
~ William Maxwell Aitken
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.
~ Vannevar Bush
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
~ Ruby Wax
Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?
~ Ruby Wax
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
~ Andre Gide
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.
~ Dave Asprey
Email is the scourge of our age, ' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.
~ Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
~ Avicenna
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
~ Mason Cooley
A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
~ Evan Esar
I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.
~ D. C. Jarvis
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
~ Thomas Jefferson
there was nothing wrong: just a touch of the back-door trots - not the flux, for there was no sign of blood, no spotting in the mustard. 'I know how to take care o' myself: not the first time I've had a run of the squitters and collywobbles.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn't let the body live, it doesn't let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old.
~ Amos Oz
As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.
~ Amy Chua
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, Hey fatty-lose some weight. By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of health and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.
~ Amy Chua
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
~ Amy Neftzger
Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.
~ Amy Neftzger
The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.
~ Amy Tan
As a precaution, Ruth had also gnawed over the worst possibilities—brain tumor, Alzheimer's, stroke—believing this would ensure that it was not these things. History had always proven that she worried for nothing.
~ Amy Tan