Health is the thing that makes you feel
that now is the best time of the year.
Blunden Edmund 1896-1974
‘Report on Experience'
I have been young, and now am not too old;
And I have seen the righteous forsaken,
His health, his honour and his quality taken.
This is not what we were formerly told.
The Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer, General Confession
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And
we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there
is no health in us.
Donleavy J. P. 1926-
The Ginger Man
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When
you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.
Haldane J.B.S. 1892-1964
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much his health,
or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
Lovelace Richard 1618-1658
‘To Althea, From Prison'
When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
When health and draughts go free,
Fishes, that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Mottoes and Slogans
(government health warning)
Smoking can seriously damage your health.
Proverbs and Sayings
English
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
Schweitzer Albert 1875-1965
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Branden Nathaniel
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure
is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the
desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Buck Pearl 1892-1973
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as coloured
Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident
of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with
which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
Letter to Miss G. Harcourt
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862
‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
White Paul Dudley 1886-1973
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise
healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.