Health Quotes (5)
Life is not merely being alive, but being well.
– Martial, 66 AD, Epigrams
We know a fantastic deal more about the causes of disease than we do about the causes of
health.
– M. Scott Peck, TRLT
In nature there are neither rewards nor punihments – there are only consequences.
– Robert G. Ingersol
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
– Schopenhauer, Arthur
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by
his thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
– Hippocrates
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
– Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881
Happiness is nothing more than excellent health and a terrible memory.
– Albert Schweitzer
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
– Mark Twain
Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dan-
gerous to the healthy organism – in fact, it is nearly impossible. Only the dying can he really
idle.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because
a lot of their dread is gone.
– Robert Bly
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to cel-
ebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape
from reality.
– Nathaniel Branden
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
– Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be
pleased.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Having excellent health is very different from only being not sick.
– Seneca The Younger, 50 AD
A young man with excellent health and a poor appetite can save up money.
– James Montgomery Bailey