Quotes about: health


True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
– Charles Caleb Colton

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
– Josh Billings
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
– Franklin P. Adams
Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.
– Thomas Adams
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.
– Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
– Joseph Addison
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
– Daniel Akaka
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
– Buzz Aldrin
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
– James Allen
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.
– George Arnold
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
– Owen Arthur
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say.
– W. H. Auden
A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.
– Thomas Addison
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
– Anacharsis
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
– Brady Anderson
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
– Howard Baker
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
– John Elias Baldacci
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
– Bob Barker
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.
– Henry Walter Bates
In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.
– Evan Bayh
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
– Aphra Behn
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
– Robert Bennett
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
– Harry A. Blackmun
Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.
– Rod Blagojevich
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
– Rod Blagojevich
I could stand here and recite statistic after statistic, indicator after indicator but I don't need to. All of you know where Louisiana stands [health care]. At the bottom.
– Kathleen Blanco
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
– Christopher Bond
America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.
– Christopher Bond
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.
– Christopher Bond
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
– Barbara Boxer
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
– Allen Boyd
There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.
– Chris A. Bridges
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
– David Bruce
There was general consternation, if one can put it that way, especially amongst those people who knew little of Vice President Truman, about the new President Truman. From what I had heard of President Truman, I wasn't unduly disturbed because I thought that President Roosevelt's health had already failed so seriously, that it was simply a matter of time before there would be such a succession.
– David Bruce
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
– Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
– Buddha
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
– Buddha
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
– Buddha
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.
– Jim Bunning
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
– Edmund Burke
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
– Roger Babson
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
– Richard Baker
Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.
– Harry F. Banks
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
– James Beattie
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.
– Gary Becker
Two lines only, o my dear friend, to give you word about my health, which is at the breaking point from the great fatigue that I am experiencing because of having to compose the opera in a short time, and whose fault is that? that of my usual and original poet, the God of Sloth!.
– Vincenzo Bellini
Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of care, that best safeguard a woman's life and health. Women and their families, along with their doctors, are simply better than politicians at making decisions about their medical care.
– Maria Cantwell
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
– Thomas Carlyle
When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.
– Jimmy Carter
Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.
– Graham Chapman
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
– Lord Chesterfield
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
– Lord Chesterfield
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
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
– Frank A. Clark
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
– Ramsey Clark
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
– Susan Collins
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
– Cyril Connolly
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
– Norman Cousins
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
– Michael Crapo
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
– Michael Crapo
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes ignored, especially by children. The program results in more children consuming more fruits and vegetables, helping their health and Idaho's farmers.
– Michael Crapo
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
– Quentin Crisp
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
– Walter Cronkite
Happiness lies first of all in health.
– George William Curtis
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
– Alan Colmes
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
– Mason Cooley
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
– Clarence Day
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
– Mark Dayton
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
– Mark Dayton
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
– Benjamin Disraeli
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
– James H. Douglas
And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie.
– John Dyer
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
– Tryon Edwards
My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
– Albert Einstein
Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.
– Larry Elder
But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.
– Larry Elder
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
– Larry Elder
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first wealth is health.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.
– John Ensign
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
– Lane Evans
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.
– Lane Evans
Genetically speaking, most humans really don't do much for the health of the species.
– Stephen Evans
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
– Robert Evans
The CIA's and the Defense Department's long denial of the possibility of chemical weapons exposure was a great disservice to thousands of Gulf War veterans whose tour of duty in the Persian Gulf has adversely affected their health.
– Terry Everett
Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.
– Dianne Feinstein
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
– Marilyn Ferguson
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
– Gustave Flaubert
The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
– Steve Forbes
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
– Benjamin Franklin
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
– Bill Frist
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
– Bill Frist