Health

"Song brings us health, and blossoms will heal wounds. Therefore, I say, happy are those who understand sound and color."

"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."

"Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?"

"Health, eldest of Gods, with thee may I dwell for the rest of my life and find thee a gracious house-mate. If there be any joy in wealth, or in children, or in that kingly rule that maketh men like to Gods, or in the desires we hunt with the secret nets of Aphrodite, or if there be any other delight or diversion sent of Heaven unto man, ’tis with thy aid, blessed Health, that they all do thrive and shine in the converse of the Graces; and without thee no man alive is happy."

"I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures."

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss."

"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."

"Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetables aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unless you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful."

"Thank Him for health. Consecrate it as His trust to innocent enjoyment, manly effort, social usefulness, and preparation for an honorable and holy career."

"There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature."

"Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage."

"Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux."

"You take care of your personal health because you want to live a long time, and you want to be happy. You want to be healthy. But we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet."

"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."

"Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies."

"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."

"A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long."

"He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy."

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

"Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased."

"There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness."

"If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better."

"The causes which affect human health are often obscure, many of them so subtile that they are discerned with difficulty, and can only be appreciated by those who devote their time to the study and observation of them through all their changes. They even sometimes escape the keenest observation of the most accurate observers; yet it is reasonable to suppose that those who prosecute such investigations with zeal actually make some progress in knowledge; and if any discovery of knowledge be made, it is not a matter of doubt that it should be employed to assure the public good. It is easier to preserve health than to cure disease, and it implies less expense of means."

"With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing—but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit."

"There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy."

"How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!"

"In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else."

"Tabi ni yande yume wa kareno o kakemeguru."

"If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors."

"Health consists with Temperance alone."

"Healthy people are invalids who don't know it."

"May be he is not well: Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound."

"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."

"Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can be given! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health."

"Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy."

"If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going."

"Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other."

"When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring."

"Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando."

"Health that snuffs the morning air."

"Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano."

"Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady."

"Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit."

"Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus."

"Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

"Terveys on kultuakii kalliimp. (Rautu, Karelia) (KSJ)"