Health Quotes

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

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

Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

Health is the greatest possession.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

I recently had double-bypass surgery. As they wheel you in, the doctor always gives you a last look. You know that look. That look of confidence to make you feel good. I always say to every doctor, If I don't make it, I'll never know it.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Health is value greater than studying.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.