Sunday, April 26, 2020 – The Nation’s Health
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 we are not well. ~ Samuel Johnson
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ~ Sir William Osler
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~ Martin H. Fischer
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~ John Diamond
It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. ~ Jackie Mason
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~ Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ~ Susan Sontag
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. ~ Albert Camus
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors. ~ Quentin Crisp
Like everybody else, when I don’t know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~ George Jean Nathan
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~ Goethe
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. ~ Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~ Mark Twain
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ~ G. K. Chesterton
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. ~ W. H. Auden
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ~ Paracelsus
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance. ~ Plato
‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. ~ Henry David Thoreau
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ~ Thomas Mann
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. ~ John B. S. Haldane
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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. ~ Robert Benchley
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. ~ Louis Pasteur
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. ~ Mark Twain
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ~ Lao Tzu
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ~ Gustave Flaubert
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. ~ Albert Einstein
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind and make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. ~ P. J. O’Rourke
Older people shouldn’t eat health food. They need all the preservatives they can get. ~ Robert Orben
Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away. ~ Robert Orben
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. ~ Dorothy Parker
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. ~ Mark Twain
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug Larson
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~ Redd Foxx
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~ Tommy Smothers
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~ Chi-Chi Rodriguez
I did not become a vegetarian for my health. I did it for the health of the chickens. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. ~ Chiang Kai-shek
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. ~ Robert Redford
With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails. ~ Lisa Marie Presley
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. ~ Terri Guillemets
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality? You should pray every night that you don’t wake up with it. ~ George Weinberg
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ~ Samuel Butler
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
In the future we’ll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare. ~ Nicole Hollander
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