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Health Proverbs



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

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