EXERCISE

Related Subjects: Energy, Recreation, Sport, Walking

1. Whenever I feel the urge to exercise coming on I lie down until it passes over.—Anonymous
   

2. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things.—Bible, I Timothy 4:8
   

3. Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.—CICERO
   

4. By constant exercise one develops freedom of movement—for virtuous deeds.—DIOGENES

5. The wise for cure on exercise depend.—DRYDEN, Epistle to John Driden
   

6. To cure the mind's wrong bias,
   Spleen,
   Some recommend the bowling green;
   Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;
   Fling but a stone, the giant dies.—MATTHEW GREEN, The Spleen
   

7. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.—JEFFERSON
   

8. I take the true definition of exercise to be, labor without weariness.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

9. Such is the constitution of man, that labor may be styled its own reward. Nor will any external incitements be requisite if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

10. The rich advantage of good exercise.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

11. Health is the vital principle of bliss; and exercise, of health.—JAMES THOMSON