Elated Quotes

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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines.~Thomas More, Utopia [sic]

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read hispurscription. ~Finley Peter Dunne

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'llbe afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~HenryWard Beecher

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ~Martin H.Fischer

Surgeons must be very carefulWhen they take the knife!Underneath their fine incisionsStirs the Culprit - Life!~Emily Dickinson

It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles.The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives himan expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. ~A.Benson Cannon

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are indanger of giving and receiving bad treatment. ~Author Unknown

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying. ~Author Unknown

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the


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disease. ~Voltaire

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannotconsole yourself to this, get out of the profession. ~Martin H. Fischer

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. ~J.J.Walsh

Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. ~George Herbert,OutlandishProverbs

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom ofthe sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.~Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~Henri Amiel

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. ~DonHerold

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at theentrance with a handshake! ~Martin H. Fischer

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.~Elbert Hubbard

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is - if youdo not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. ~Nicholas deBelleville

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. ~William Shakespeare


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I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I couldafford. ~Betsy Salkind

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given withdifferent intents. ~Peter Mere Latham

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear ofmicrobes. ~Author Unknown

Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~JeanMartin Charcot, translated from French

I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to theconclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in itsmost virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ~Martin H. Fischer

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescuehim with every means that art and science place at his command. ~Alexander of

Tralles

Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defendthe constitution and others destroy it. ~Author Unknown

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb

Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb

Treat the patient, not the Xray. ~James M. Hunter


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God and the Doctor we alike adoreBut only when in danger, not before;The danger o'er, both are alike requited,God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.~Robert Owen

Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.~Roul Turley

The hospital is the only proper College in which to rear a true disciple ofAesculapius. ~John Abernethy

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. Theamount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H.Fischer

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught,The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;God never made his work for man to mend.~John Dryden

Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for

its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often sufferingfellow creature. ~John Brown

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can youcure him? ~Martin H. Fischer

Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even thanthe whole man - he must view the man in his world. ~Harvey Cushing

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia


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As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbeand its host. ~Charles V. Chapin

Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said,is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes

Until a physician has killed one or two he is not a physician. ~Kashmiri Proverb

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part whichbest conserves the interests of your patient. ~Martin H. Fischer

To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of lifeand of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind,and restoring peace by his mere presence. ~Henri Amiel

Medicinal discovery,It moves in mighty leaps,It leapt straight past the common cold

And give it us for keeps.~Pam Ayres

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache meanswithout cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and sixx-ray plates, you areslipping. ~Martin H. Fischer

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.~Chinese Proverb

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is yourpatient. ~William Withey Gull

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.~William Cullen,Practice of Physic


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The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and notthrough an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull

A Short History of Medicine2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."~Author Unknown

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot becured. ~Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb

No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humbleaspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep,

wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~MalcolmMuggeridge, 1962

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar.~Wilfrid G. Oakley

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.~Peter Mere Latham

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit,irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope

Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'msupposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. ~Jan King


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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~Erma Bombeck

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. ~Alonzo

Clark

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does morethan half the work and asks none of the fee. ~Martin H. Fischer

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. ~WilliamOsler

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.~African Proverb

When you treat a disease, first treat the mind. ~Chen Jen

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. ~JohnBrown

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the

care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.~Thomas Edison

Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors knownothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fightingdisease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. ~Auckland Geddes,The Practitioner

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverb


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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewherebetween trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht,Miracle of the FifteenMurderers

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will notabhor them. ~Ecclesiasticus 38:4

A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientificreport. ~Author Unknown

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~John Diamond

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discouragespreventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in themeantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician insickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. ~Ivan Illich

Patients may recover in spite of drugs or because of them. ~J.H. Gaddum

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.~Benjamin Franklin

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns outthe queen. ~Martin H. Fischer

The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine.Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vendingmachines. ~Grey Livingston

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was

correct. ~Samuel J. Meltzer

Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composedof only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict.~A.B. Christie


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Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.~Martin H. Fischer

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have

withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. ~Martin H.Fischer

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tellsthe story than from the story itself. ~James B. Herrick

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a totalstranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves tokeep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown

Most of those evils we poor mortals knowFrom doctors and imagination flow.~Charles Churchill

Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the firstlikely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, inspite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension,cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophiclateral sclerosis. ~Logan Clendening

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.~Author unknown, attributed to both Dan and Barbara Hladio and ThomasBoyadjis, Sr.

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease isstronger than trained art. ~Ovid

And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life and Death like friendlychafferers meet. ~William Ernest Henley

For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers,listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the otheraspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to thescale. ~Claire Todae


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A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. ~Martin H. Fischer

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliateupon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. ~William Stewart Halsted

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate norpay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ~Martin H. Fischer

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. ~Horace

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H.Fischer

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by whichthey vainly hope they may get more time to squander. ~Mortimer Collins

One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely

rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov,Ivanov

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive bookthan the patient himself. ~Giorgio Baglivi

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic formedicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicinefor magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973

Health Quotations


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Common sense is in medicine the master workman.- Peter Latham

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.- Jean-Martin Charcot

There are some remedies worse than the disease.- Publilius Syrus

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and indisease to learn the truth.- Hippocrates

You should pray for a healthy mnd in a healthy body.- Juvenal

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

- Menander

Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.

- Ariphron

Body: A thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and badancestors and a misfit from the start.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through theseeyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieveand take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature.- Elbert Hubbard

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good -- butyour rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

- Persius

Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.- Menander

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.- George William Curtis
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For life is only life when blest with health.- Martial

I am convinced digestion is the great secret to life.- Sydney Smith

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.- H.G. Bohn

The King who cannot rule his diet,Will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet.- Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno", author unknown

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the bodylack. We give it orders which make no sense.- Henry Miller

Time is the great physician.- Benjamin Disraeli

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.- Seneca

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.- Arabian Proverb

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care

of his tools.- Spanish Proverb

Better to hunt in fields for health unboughtThan fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.The wise for cure on exercise me depend;God never made his work for man to mend.

- John Dryden

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

- Gerrrye William Curtis

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.- Alexander the Great

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.- Benjamin Franklin


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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what youdon't like, and do what you'd rather not.- Mark Twain

Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

America's health care system is second only to Japan ... Canada, Sweden, GreatBritain ... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live inParaguay!- Homer Simpson

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just thatway. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.- Herb Shriner

Time is the great physician.- Benjamin Franklin

Health and Fitness Proverbs and Sayings

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

A good rest is half the work

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his

tools

A stitch in time saves nine

A healthy man is a successful man

Better to wear out than to rust out

Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love (About coffee)

Eat to live, not live to eat

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

He, who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything

Hygiene is two thirds of health
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Prevention is better than cure

Never let the sun go down on your anger

You are what you eat

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is sodifficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their healththat they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings

The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too illand is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler,The Way of AllFlesh, 1903

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled asgood as bacon. ~Doug Larson

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and notmerely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, commonsense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around....Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as avaluable element in healing. ~Larry Dossey

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.~Redd Foxx

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something


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fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seekingmore exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. Wehave lost all confidence in the human body. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa andthe Snail, 1979

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. ~AuthorUnknown

The best six doctors anywhereAnd no one can deny itAre sunshine, water, rest, and airExercise and diet.These six will gladly you attendIf only you are willingYour mind they'll easeYour will they'll mendAnd charge you not a shilling.~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.~Chinese Proverb

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.~Leon Eldred

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

Red meat is notbad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! ~TommySmothers

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~ChiChi Rodriguez

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, andsome lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


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The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge ofhis own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.~Quentin Regestein

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown

Joy and Temperance and ReposeSlam the door on the doctor's nose.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~Robert Ingersoll

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimesattributed to William C. Hazlitt

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in forcatching colds. ~George Jean Nathan

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health andhappiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~ElbertHubbard

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who arehoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~LaurenceSterne

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped fromthe claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is myconfidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~JohnRedman Coxe, 1800


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A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~IrishProverb

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coatsof his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, butthere are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. ~Henry Lytton Bulwer

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.~Napoleon I

TheIin illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~Authorunknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A CardiologistReveals the Secret Language of Healing

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodiesstiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else. ~Alison Rose Levy,"An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance untolife, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examinedthe parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, dowonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that leadto death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."Tomorrow is disease. ~Terri Guillemets

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't muchbetter than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice,Prenticeana, 1860

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only makepromises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust


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My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefootthrough the grass. ~Terri Guillemets

We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.~Cicero

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would onlyconsult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one isfree from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.~B.K.S. Iyengar

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. ~CharlesSimmons

Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.) ~Juvenal

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like athread. ~Chinese Proverb

Nature does requireHer time of preservation, which perforceI her frail son amongst my brethren mortalMust give my attendance to.~William Shakespeare

Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~JoshBillings

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. ~E.R. Squibb

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life


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go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyzeit by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent. ~Thomas Dekker, Westward Ho,

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Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic. ~Martin H. Fischer

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John HenryCardinal Newman

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them,rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. ~RobertBurton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.~Terri Guillemets

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~FrancisBacon

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit aswell;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook ofa man. ~James H. West

Hear your heart. Heart your health. ~Faith Seehill

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~FranoisDuc de la Rochefoucauld

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~CatalanProverb


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If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health

than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep

Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. ~Author Unknown

Every man's disease is his personal property. ~Alonzo Clark

Know, then, whatever cheerful and sereneSupports the mind supports the body too.~John Armstrong

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a goodrousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into youreyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "HiccoughingMakes Us Fat,"No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise orTemperance. ~Joseph Addison

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.~Kin Hubbard

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.~Aldous Huxley

I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my achingjoints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital.

~Astrid Alauda

If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibilityfor you. ~Carrie Latet

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin


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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their originthere. ~Moliere

Confidence and hope do more good than physic. ~Galen

Live in rooms full of lightAvoid heavy foodBe moderate in the drinking of wineTake massage, baths, exercise, and gymnasticsFight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running waterChange surroundings and take long journeysStrictly avoid frightening ideasIndulge in cheerful conversation and amusementsListen to music.~A. Cornelius Celsus

My inner advisor is dying to heal me. ~Astrid Alauda

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and inthe 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

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that thebirds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb,Last Essays of Elia

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but thelatter are the more often successful. ~Denis Diderot

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resourcesto live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over,and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. ~RalphWaldo Emerson


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If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health thebetter. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of alldietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ~Martin H. Fischer

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has alwaysseems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. ~John Diamond

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~ArabicProverb

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, afterall, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~NathanielHawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~George William Curtis,Lotus-Eating

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually livelonger; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find thatyou are sick. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Proverbs in Prose

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do,you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hourslonger than you would otherwise. ~Logain Clendening

Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sicknessyou like. ~Jackie Mason

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~Author Unknown


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May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather diebefore you cease to be fit to live than after! ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749

What linguistic geniusset up the sneeze and wheezeTo rhyme so very perfectlywith the word for allergies?~Charlie N. Abbers

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is acertain calculated carelessness about oneself. ~Sydney J. Harris

My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worthforgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend theirwealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi,Our Family

Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what youdon't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain

on health

*Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

*Good health is above wealth

*Health is not valued till sickness comes.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones fat (healthy)

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.


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"Deep Thoughts and One-line Proverbs"

Well here are some famous and not so famous quotes that have either gotten me thinking

or have made me laugh. If you have any that are not on here please e-mail me so I canpost it on this page. I hope you enjoy. Life is...paradoxically coincidental to the

ironical tyranny applicable to the unparalled definition of reverse entropy.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

It's your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you

go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. (Zig Zigler)

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. (Edgar Allen Poe)

Imagination is more important than intelligence.(Albert Einstein)

Never let formal education get in the way of learning. (Mark Twain)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a

different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured

or far away. (Henry David Thoreau)

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition. A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

Failure is the path of least persistence.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

The future is purchased by the present.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Lost time is never found again.

Childeren need more models than critics.

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

(Motto o fthe Baltimore Grotto)

Be curious, not judgemental. (Walt Whitman) Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. (Richard

Saunders)

If you want your dream to come true, don't over sleep.

People don't fail, they give up.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Every man dies; but not every man really lives. (Braveheart)

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot chabge, the courage to

change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (St. Francis of

Assisi) The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings others.

To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human. When you are arguing with an idiot, make sure the other person isn't doing the

same thing.

Minds are like parachutes-they only function when open.

You can't direnct the wind, but you can adjust the sail.
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The lead dog gets the best view. the rest of the dog's view is butt ugly. Of course,

the lead dog is also the first to fall into a ravine. (Richard Saunders)

Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place whereyou don't have to be anything else.

Don't confuse me with facts, I prefer to remain ignorant.

If you are never scared, embarrassed of hurt, it means you never take chances. Desire for nothing except desirelessness, hope for nothing except to rise above all

hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.

Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put inhot water.

When you remain true to yoru beliefs, loyal to yoru ideas and faithful to your

dreams, you remain free forever.

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to whatlies within us.

We live in a society where pizza get to your house before the police.

Some people tink holding on makes them strong, sometimes its letting go.

Blowing out another man's flame doesn't make your shine any brighter, but less. The secret of true greatness is simplicity.

Better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with teh losers. (Robert

Orben)

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved: loved for

ourselves, or reather, loved in spite of ourselves. Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for,

because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. (Peter

Marshall)

7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.

The trouble with dong something right the first time is that nbody appreiates how

difficult it was.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

If it is tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

An Educational system isn;t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to

make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is

merely the shadow of a dream. (William Shakespear)

It is better to have bad breath than to have no breath at all.

The future belongs to those who believ in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor

Roosevelt)

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Keep away from people who try to bellittle your ambitions. Small people always

do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great. (MarkTwain)

To find the person you can truely trust, look no futher that nthe nearest mirror.

Preach the Gospel at all times...if necessary, use words. (St. Francis of Assisi)


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The purpose of prayer is not to get answers, things or anything-not even holiness.

Valuable though they are, all of those are side effects. The purpose of prayer is to

get acquainted with God. Anything else is a bonus. (Alfred C. McClure)

Whoever said, it's not wheter you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

(Davet Rayala)

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Rightnow, I'm so far behind, that I will never die.

Some succeed because they are destined to. But most suceed because they are

determined to.

A bump in the road is either an obstacle to be fought or an opportunity to beenjoyed...it is all up to you." (Davet Rayala)

Nothing in this world is impossibile to a willin heart.(Davet Rayala)

To those who dream, there is no such thing as impossible.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is teh mysterious. It is the source

of all true art and science. (Albert Einstein) You will find God in the church of your choice. (Bob Dylan)

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