Sayings on Health
The beginning of health is sleep. ~ Irish Proverbs
Work is half of health. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Good health and good sense are two great blessings. ~ Latin Proverbs
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~ Chinese Proverb
The beginning of health is to know the disease. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you would live healthy, be old early. ~ Spanish Proverb
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~ Danish Proverbs
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~ Arabic Proverb
The healthy die first. ~ Italian Proverbs
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy. ~ Chinese Proverb
From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~ Catalan Proverbs
One day in perfect health is a lot. ~ Arabian Proverb
One who eats plain food is healthy. ~ Japanese Proverbs
When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~ English Proverbs
Joyfulness is half your health. ~ Czech Proverbs
Good health is the sister of beauty. ~ Maltese Proverbs
If you want to live long, be healthy and fat, drink like a dog and eat like a cat. ~ German Proverbs
Diseases come a horsebacke, and returne on foot. ~ French proverb
He who has no health has nothing. ~ French Proverb
Your health comes first — you can always hang yourself later. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body. ~ French Proverb
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ~ English Proverbs
Better a healthy donkey than a consumptive philosopher. ~ Romanian Proverbs
The tiredness of the body is the health of the soul. ~ French Proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~ Irish Proverbs
Health is better than wealth. ~ Traditional Proverb
The rich have medicines the poor have health. ~ German Proverbs
Cowardly men, healthy bones. ~ Creole Proverb
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
We are usually the best men when in the worst health. ~ English Proverbs
Sometimes the body becomes healthy by being very sick. ~ Iranian Proverbs
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. ~ Italian Proverbs
A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth. ~ Traditional Proverb
Health comes before making a livelihood. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Limit your desires and you will improve your health. ~ Spanish Proverbs
No time for your health today, will result in no health for your time tomorrow. ~ Irish Proverb
Quotations about Health
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ~ Jimmy Carter
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. ~ Author Unknown
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ~ William Londen
A Man’s illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he love you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. ~ Lauren Bacall
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best elationship. ~ Buddha
From labor health, from health contentment springs. ~ Melody Beattie
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness — an open and noble temper. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is a blessing that money cannot buy. ~ Izaak Walton
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. ~Author Unknown
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings. ~ Publilius Syrus
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. ~ Carl Jung
Being healthy is a revolutionary act. ~ Author Unknown
The greatest wealth is health. ~ Virgil
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The groundwork of all happiness is health. ~ Leigh Hunt
After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. ~ Helen Gurley Brown
Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession mortals can have. Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly purchased, if it be at the loss of the vigor of health. None of these attainments can secure happiness, if health is wanting. ~ Ellen Gould White
A healthy outside starts from the inside. ~ Robert Urich
My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones. ~ Kiana Tom
The first wealth is health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. ~ John B. S. Haldane
There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. ~ Josh Billings
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. ~ Isaac Bickerstaffe
Health is my expected heaven. ~ John Keats
Health is not valued till sickness comes. ~ Author Unknown
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ~ Herbert Spencer
If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease. ~ Robert Ingersoll
Health is the vital principle of bliss. ~ James Thomson
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor. ~ Sir William Temple
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~ Josh Billing
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. ~ Richard Baker
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~ G.K. Chesterton
A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that if you’re healthy, you’re capable of doing everything. There’s no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me. ~ Pedro Martinez
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is worth more than learning. ~ Thomas Jefferson
A stitch in time saves nine. ~ Author Unknown
In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel
We drink one another’s health and spoil our own. ~ Jerome K. Jerome
Give me good health and I’ll take care of the rest. ~ Marilyn Horne
Good health is above wealth. ~ Author Unknown
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. ~ Franklin Pierce Adams
The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually. ~ Greg Anderson
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay…. your heart breaks. Health care should be a given. ~ Kathryn Anastos
Health will generally attend thee well if thou attend it well. ~ Edward Counsel
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. ~ Mark Twain
Healthy people are invalids who don’t know it. ~ Jules Romains
Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. ~ Mary Baker Eddy
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. ~ Author Unknown
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. ~ St. Augustine
Health is the requisite after morality. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~ George William Curtis