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| The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. ~ Josh Billings |
| The greatest wealth is health. ~ Virgil |
| Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug Larson |
| Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~ World Health Organization |
| The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around…. Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~ Larry Dossey |
| Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~ Author Unknown |
| Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~ Redd Foxx |
| As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. ~ Lewis Thomas, |
| In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~ Author Unknown |
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The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~ Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, |
| He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself. ~ Leon Eldred |
| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~ Mark Twain |
| Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~ Tommy Smothers |
| They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez |
| Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~ Lord Chesterfield |
| If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~ Quentin Regestein |
| I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~ Author Unknown |
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease. ~ Robert Ingersoll |
| Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~ Dutch Proverb |
| Like everybody else, when I don’t know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~ George Jean Nathan |
| Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~ Cicero |
| If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~ Laurence Sterne |
| To feel keenly the poetry of a morning’s roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel |
| The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~ John Redman Coxe |
| A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~ Irish Proverb |