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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
There are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the
joy of heart.
The surest guide to health, say what they will,
is never to suppose that we shall be ill;
Most of those evils we poor mortals know,
from doctors and imagination flow.
Churchill
Guard good health from heat, and cold, and wet and sudden
changes; A little care, a little sense, shall save thee bitter
trouble; It is no petty moral to preserve thy body's health.
M. Tupper
A sound mind in a sound body is the blessedness of creatures;
So spake the wise of old, and we cannot mend their wisdom.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise
from a morbid state of health.
H. W. Beecher
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of
languor and suffering -- an image of death.
Rabelais
Take care of your health; you have no right to neglect it, and
thus become a burden to yourself, and perhaps to others.
W. Hall
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life,
which fade and are tasteless without it.
Sir W. Temple
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.
Lydia H. Sigourney
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.
Abernethy
If men gave three times as much attention as they now do to
ventilation, ablution, and exercise in 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
decreased 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.
J. F. Clarke
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 later is still more obvious when we
reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for
money, but the richest would gladly part with all his money for
health.
Colton
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for
keeping a sound mind in a sound body.
Bowen
The ingredients of good health and long life are great
temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Sir P. Sidney
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and
abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Sir W. Temple
Anguish of the 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.
Colton
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is
better than a sick king.
Bickerstaff
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
produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength?
Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils? Patience.
Voltaire
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.
Izaak Walton
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.
South
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's
nose.
Longfellow
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
Frankin
If you want to know if your brain is flabby feel of your legs.
Bruce Barton
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of
all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil,
and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health
of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.
Burton
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice,
so the bodies of those who eat much are full of diseases.
Diogenes
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who
strangle those whom they embrace.
Seneca
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