Quotes About Health

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man happy wealthy and wise.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Games lubricate the body and mind.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.

I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.

I drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer!

What physicians call perspirable matter is that vapour which passes off from our bodies, from the lungs, and through the pores of the skin. The quantity of this is said to be five eighths of what we eat.—Author.

Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.