best quotations about
Health |
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Quotations
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 15 likes | |
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 11 likes | |
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 10 likes | |
Cure the disease and kill the patient. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 8 likes | |
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes | |
To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 6 likes | |
The remedy is worse than the disease. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 6 likes | |
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 6 likes | |
If someone incessantly drops the word “life,” you know he's a sick man. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 6 likes | |
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes | |
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes | |
When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 5 likes | |
He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. 4 likes | |
There are diseases that are healthy. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 4 likes | |
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes | |
Luck must be dealt with like health: enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes | |
The medicine of the future will be music and sound. — Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945, American mystic & prophet 4 likes | |
Walking is man’s best medicine. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 4 likes | |
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes | |
If any organism fails to fulfil its potentialities, it becomes sick. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 3 likes | |
If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 3 likes | |
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 likes | |
The sick body of the Ottoman empire was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 2 likes | |
The strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 2 likes | |
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 2 likes | |
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes | |
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. | |
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. | |
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work. | |
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. | |
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. | |
When he is sick, every man wants his mother. | |
Bad health is bad luck. Everything else is good luck. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist | |
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony. |
Personal Stories
I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 2 likes |
Latin Quotes
A healthy mind in a healthy body. Mens sana in corpore sano. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 76 likes |
Quotes in Verse
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 8 likes | |
Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, “I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.” Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it? — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 4 likes | |
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 2 likes | |
My struggle to remain healthy is gradually killing me. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
Health and intellect are the two blessings of life. Υγεία και νους εσθλά τω βίω δύο. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 8 likes | |
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents. Τις ευδαίμων; Ο το μεν σώμα υγιής, την δε ψυχήν εύπορος, την δε φύσιν ευπαίδευτος. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes | |
Health is precious but volatile. Υγιεία τίμιον αλλ' ευμετάστατον. — Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian 4 likes | |
Sickness and health are neighbors with a common wall. Υγιείας... νόσος γαρ γείτων ομότοιχος. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 4 likes |