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Health Thoughts

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter


Happiness lies, first of all, in health.  ~George William Curtis, Lotus-Eating


If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.  ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964


If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose


If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.  ~Logain Clendening


Health is a relationship between you and your body.  ~Terri Guillemets


It's no longer a question of staying healthy.  It's a question of finding a sickness you like.  ~Jackie Mason


Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.  ~Author Unknown


May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!  ~Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749


What linguistic genius
set up the sneeze and wheeze
To rhyme so very perfectly
with the word for allergies?
~Charlie N. Abbers


Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.  ~Sydney J. Harris


My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb.  ~Carrie Latet


I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat.  There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.  ~John Mortimer


So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.  ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family


Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it.  ~Benjamin Franklin


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