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Quotations About Health

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Thomas Dekker
Westward Ho, 1604


I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh, 1903


There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar


What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
Prenticeana, 1860


They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
Chi Chi Rodriguez


I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
Kathleen Sebelius


Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir


I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Unknown


Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer


If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Ingersoll


Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
George Jean Nathan


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
Irish Proverb


Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
Danish Proverb


Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Cicero


Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I


The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett


The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
Chinese Proverb


If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P.J. O'Rourke


But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
Kathleen Sebelius


Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
Phyllis Diller