Quotations about

Health

Fitness—If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

—Cher

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

Be not slow to visit the sick.

—Ecclesiastes

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

—Frank Duff

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

—George Dennison Prentice

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

—Hippocrates

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

—Izaak Walton

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

—Jackie Mason

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.

—Jay Leno

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

—Jeph Jacques

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

—Mark Twain

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

—Oprah Winfrey

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

—Peter McWilliams

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

—Peter McWilliams

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

—Quentin Crisp