health quotes

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

The first wealth is health.

I eat next to nothing.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.