Health Quotes - Page 26

• Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Men, Physicians

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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• Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

  William Hazlitt

  Morning, Giving, Riding

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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• Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Perfect, Perfect Beauty

  Essays on Men and Manners 'On Taste'

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• When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

  Art Buchwald

  Two, Would Be, Three

  "The Man Who Would Not Die". "Having a High Time Where You'd Least Expect It" by Art Buchwald, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2006.

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• Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

  Sigmund Freud

  Two, Imagination, Ability To Love

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• When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

  Jack Layton

  Sick, Cards, Credit

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• A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

  Eric Berne

  Persons, Healthy, Unhealthy

  "They Shoot Managers, Don't They?: Managing Yourself and Leading Others in a Changing World". Book by Terry L. Paulson, p. 3, 1991.

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• I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Delight, Patient, Painting

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• Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Passion, Home, Sick

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• This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

  Sidney Jourard

  Loss, Self, Illness

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• If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

  Herodotus

  Two, Soul, Body

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mother, Father, Home

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• What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Humanity, Passionate

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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• His art is the health of the artist.

  Harold Clurman

  Art, Artist, Art Is

  Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”

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• Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.

  John O'Hara

  Hot, Firearms

  John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University

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• Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.

  Lydia M. Child

  Hurt, Water, Physicians

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• If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.

  Bernard Jensen

  Living Right, Would Be, Needs

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• Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Men, Hazards

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.100

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• Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Running, Broken, Evil

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.270

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• Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Weed, Doctors, Medicine

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• We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Moving, Aristocracy, Care

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• The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Style, Female, Requirements

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• Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doctors, Religion, Heal

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

  Joseph Addison

  Exercise, Substitutes, Temperance

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• I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Blessed, Men

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