HEALTH

Related Subjects: Body, Diet, Disease, Doctors, Hospital, Life, Medicine, Sickness, Strength

1. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.—BACON, Of Regimen of Health
   

2. Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly cooperative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!—CARLYLE, Sir Walter Scott
   

3. Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat . . . Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!—CARLYLE, Sir Walter Scott
   

4. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend.—DISRAELI
   

5. The head that wears a crown may be
   Inclined to some anxiety,
   But, on the other hand, I know
   A derby domes its meed of woe.—SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN, Songs of Faith in the Year After
   

6. The groundwork of all happiness is health.—LEIGH HUNT, Deaths of Little Children
   

7. Joy and Temperance and Repose
   Slam the door on the doctor's nose.—LONGFELLOW, The Best Medicines

8. Health without wealth is half a sickness.—Proverb

9. The head and feet kept warm, the rest will take no harm.—Proverb
   

10. He that wants health wants everything.—Proverb
    

11. As fit as a fiddle.—Proverb
    

12. Hygiene is the only useful part of medicine, and hygiene is rather a virtue than a science.—ROUSSEAU, Emile, or Education
    

13. There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.—SIMONIDES
    

14. I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
    

15. Health is the vital principle of bliss,
    And exercise, of health.—JAMES THOMSON, The Castle of Indolence
    

16. Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of—a blessing that money cannot buy.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler