Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.

Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

—Djuna Barnes

I thought I wanted his love, but really I wanted his pity. I wanted to quit. But he wouldn't let me. "A good doctor can cure your illness, but only the greatest doctor can show you you were never sick," Roshi has said.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner, but you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead.

—Louis Armstrong

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

—Jackie Mason