Health quotes

There are some remedies worse than the disease.
- Publilius Syrus

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
- Hippocrates

You should pray for a healthy mnd in a healthy body.
- Juvenal

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

- Menander

Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.

- Ariphron

Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.
- H.G. Bohn

The King who cannot rule his diet,
Will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet.
- Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno", author unknown


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
- Henry Miller

Time is the great physician.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
- Seneca

America's health care system is second only to Japan ... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain ... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!
- Homer Simpson

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.
- Herb Shriner

Time is the great physician.
- Benjamin Franklin

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

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

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mohandas Gandhi

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson