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HEALTH quotes
Wet feet are some of the most effective agents death has in the field. It has peopled more graves than all the gory engines of war. Those who neglect to keep their feet dry are suicides.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby feel of your legs.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind in a sound body.
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.
In these days, half our diseases come from the neglect of the body in the overwork of the brain. In this railway age, the wear and tear of labor and intellect go on without pause or self-pity. We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.
There are two things in life, that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach, and the enamel of his teeth.—Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
With stupidity and sound digestion man may fret much; but what in these dull unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver.
If men gave three times as much attention as they now do to ventilation, ablution, and exercise in the open air, and only one third as much to eating, luxury, and late hours, the number of doctors, dentists, and apothecaries, and the amount of neuralgia, dyspepsia, gout, fever, and consumption, would be changed in a corresponding ratio.
Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful, and take all the sleep you need, and you may expect to be well.
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings—health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all his money for health.
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either receives.
A sound mind in a sound body; if the former be the glory of the latter, the latter is indispensable to the former.
The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its recources to live. But health answers its own ends, and has to spare; runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
There is still an immense amount to be learned about health, but if what is at present known to a few were part of the general knowledge, the average expectation of life could probably be increased by about ten years.
Take care of your health; you have no right to neglect it, and thus become a burden to yourself, and perhaps to others. Let your food be simple; never eat too much; take exercise enough; be systematic in all things; if unwell, starve yourself till you are well again, and you may throw care to the winds, and physic to the dogs.
A wise physician is a John Baptist, who recognizes that his only mission is to prepare the way for a greater than himself—Nature.
As knowledge with regard to the effects of food upon man increases, it is more than conceivable that the races that first avail themselves of the new values of nutrition may decrease the handicaps of disease, lengthen their lives, and so become the leaders of the future.
Pew things are more important to a community than the health of its women.—If strong is the frame of the mother, says a proverb, the son will give laws to the people.—And in nations where all men give laws, all men need mothers of strong frames.
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues.—We can no longer be useful when not well.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly; but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Life is not to live, but to be well.
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all toe other things called good, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering—an image of death.
It is the opinion of those who best understand the physical system, that if the physical laws were strictly observed from generation to generation, there would be an end to the frightful diseases that cut life short, and of the long list of maladies that make life a torment or a trial, and that this wonderful machine, the body,—this "goodly temple," would gradually decay, and men. would at last die as if gently falling asleep.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in health with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
We are beginning to recognize that amusement ... is a commodity as essential to the physical and mental health and well-being of the human animal as lumber, wheat, oil, steel, or textiles.
Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and rich families, where men live plentifully, and eat and drink freely, that perfect health and athletic soundness and vigor of constitution which are commonly seen in the country, where nature is the cook, and necessity the caterer, and where they have no other doctor but the sun and fresh air.
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers.—The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.
Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils? Patience.
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of—a blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent; nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
It is the superstition of medicine that is responsible for all the health cults of modern times. You have elevated the desire for health, youth and longevity to the position of a religion.
The first sure symptoms of a mind in health are rest of heart and pleasure found at home.
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