You wanted to get well. . . . Asked your greatest wish in life, you would have replied at once — sanity. . . . In the world outside, people longed desperately to be millionaires, movie actors, club presidents. . . . But nowhere, nowhere save the madhouse, did mental health get its share of prayers. —Mary Jane Ward More about this quote Tags: life health mental health sanity prayers millionaires Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They told me that her blood was too thick for her heart to pump, and I wondered how it was that someone stayed alive so long after nothing's left. I had seen bugs crushed and gone so quickly. I couldn't decide if life was fragile or tenacious beyond belief. —Patricia Bralley More about this quote Tags: life health death blood fragility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: health eating drinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. —Ivan Illich More about this quote Tags: health disease medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine. —Catharine Maria Sedgwick More about this quote Tags: prejudice health medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. —Adelle Davis More about this quote Tags: health disease study Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: health food guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. —Gustave Flaubert More about this quote Tags: health happiness stupidity selfishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. —Quentin Crisp More about this quote Tags: health disease neighbors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. —Totie Fields More about this quote Tags: time health diet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first wealth is health. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: health wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. —Henry G. Strauss More about this quote Tags: humor reading health danger smoking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: health countries USA America medicine comparison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. —Adelle Davis More about this quote Tags: health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email