Health Quotes

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
– Benjamin Franklin
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
As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.
– Bill Frist
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou art dieted for health.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
– Mahatma Gandhi
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
– Bill Gates
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
– Dick Gephardt
When a child, my mother taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom and protection. Sometimes we prayed in silence, sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us... and to Usen.
– Geronimo
We became one of the first states in the nation to approve common-sense restrictions on smoking in public places, balancing the rights ofsmokers with the rights of a public who deserve to live in good health.
– Brad Henry
I would hope that we would treat these funds as help for health-related problems for our citizens, not a bonanza of bucks for politicians to fund pet projects.
– Mike Huckabee
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
– Leigh Hunt
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
– Gilbert Highet
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
– Henrik Ibsen
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
– Ivan Illich
The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
– Roy Jenkins
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
– Benjamin Jowett
Health is my expected heaven.
– John Keats
I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
– John F. Kerry
I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.
– John F. Kerry
The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.
– John F. Kerry
Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.
– Herb Kohl
Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
– Jon Kyl
It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.
– Jon Kyl
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
– Mary Landrieu
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
– General Robert E. Lee
Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies.
– Jay Leno
President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.
– Jay Leno
Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?
– Jay Leno
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You go out and perform every day, so you gotta take care of yourself, health-wise, as far as drinking enough water, getting enough sleep. You're having after parties every day. You're on the road, you're messing with women, you're doing this, you're doing that. It's crazy. I mean, it was a great experience, what can I say? I loved it.
– Ludacris
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
– William Londen
Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
– Karl A. Menninger
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychiatry from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us and the new and different concepts of illness and health.
– Karl A. Menninger
Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.
– Ruth Ann Minner
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
– Ashley Montagu
Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.
– Lisa Murkowski
Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? He's been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.
– Patty Murray
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
– William Menninger
If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
– Bill Munson
It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.
– Bill Munson
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
– Arthur Murphy
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
– Levy Mwanawsa
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
– Ben Nelson
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
– Bill Nelson
What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health and safety.
– Bill Nelson
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
– Ovid
It's not just frivolous lawsuits that weigh down the economy; the ever-increasing cost of health insurance does, too.
– Bill Owens
We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.
– Timothy Pawlenty