Sayings about Breathing
You cannot breathe through another man’s nose. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~ Traditional Proverb
The breath of others always stinks. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs
Fresh air impoverishes doctors. ~ Danish Proverbs
Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant. ~ Chinese Proverb
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things will be yours. ~ Swedish Proverbs
The first breath is the beginning of death. ~ Traditional Proverb
Don’t borrow another’s nose to breathe with. ~ Thai Proverbs
He who has bad breath cannot smell it. ~ Namibian Proverb
Save your breath to cool your porridge. ~ Traditional Proverb
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food. ~ Welsh Proverb
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
Quotations about Breathing
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? ~ Mary Oliver
Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. ~ Barbara Sher
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~ Jack Benny
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. ~ Jacques Cousteau
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. ~ Stewart Udall
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ~ Erma Bombeck
If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~ Andrea Boydston
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? ~ Mary Oliver
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. ~ Frederick Soddy
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~ John Updike
Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. ~ Carla Melucci Ardito
Arguments are healthy. They clear the air. ~ John Deacon
Imagination is the air of mind. ~ Philip James Bailey
Without the breath of real freedom we’re getting nowhere fast. ~ Gordon Sumner
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. ~ George Santayana
Just breathing isn’t living! ~ Eleanor H. Porter
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~ William E. Simon
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ Oprah Winfrey
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. ~ Toni Morrison
Fear is excitement without breath. ~ Robert Heller
He lives most life whoever breathes most air. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Keep breathing. ~ Sophie Tucker
Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within. ~ Author Unknown
I’m a guy who gets more out of life than some people — more out of one big breath of fresh air than most people get from breathing in and out for a lifetime. ~ Vince McMahon
A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~ Author Unknown
Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. ~ Huang Po
The very air in which you live is an inspiration. ~ William Henry Moody
To live is not breathing it is action. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy! ~ Kris Carr
In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. ~ Peter Matthiessen
People happy in love have an air of intensity. ~ Stendhal
Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~ Author Unknown
Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. ~ Lillie Langtry
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. ~ John F. Kennedy
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair. ~ Evel Knievel
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. ~ Edith Wharton
When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. ~ Author Unknown
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. ~ Nelly Sachs
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. ~ William Penn
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. ~ Byron Nelson
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one’s own life. ~ Luce Irigaray
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. ~ Christopher Columbus
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~ Erich Fromm
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. ~ Giovanni Papini
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. ~ Goran Persson
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe. ~ Julia Child
Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t. ~ Sir Nathan Rothschild
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. ~ Guy de Maupassant
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. ~ Philip Sidney
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~ Sylvia Plath