Health and disease Quotes

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise

They certainly give very strange names to diseases

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness

Time is generally the best doctor

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning

The first wealth is health

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital