787 Health Quotes

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

My struggle to remain healthy is gradually killing me.

You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you.

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

My problems aren't big but it doesn't necessarily take a big problem to kill me.

It costs money to stay healthy, but it's even more expensive to get sick.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Old age is no place for sissies.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.

I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.

I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

We can drink till all look blue.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

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.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.

I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

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

You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.