Health
From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation, search Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better. ~ Émile CouéQuotes about Health:
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- The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
- Anonymous nursery rhyme set to the tune of "Yankee Doodle", quoted in "The Health Club" in School Life, Vol. IV (January - June 1920), p. 17
- I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
- Robert Benchley, in "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat" in No Poems: or Around the World Backwards and Sideways (1932)
- I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
- Samuel Butler, in The Way of All Flesh (1903)
- Thank Him for health. Consecrate it as His trust to innocent enjoyment, manly effort, social usefulness, and preparation for an honorable and holy career.
- William Ellery Channing, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 299.
- Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux.
- Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
- Émile Coué, in his auto-suggestive formula for health, as quoted in The Practice of Autosuggestion by the Method of Emile Coué (1922) by Cyrus Harry Brooks
- Variant translation: Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
- Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
- If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
- Clement Freud, as quoted in The Observer (27 December 1964)
- If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose (1819)
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Attributed to Markus Herz by Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Zur Diätetik der Seele (1841), p. 95. (more info)
- Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased.
- John McClellan Holmes, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 299.
- If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Over the Teacups (1891)
- How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
- Charles Lamb, in Last Essays of Elia (1833)
- In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.
- Alison Rose Levy, in "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life" in Yoga Journal (January - February 2002)
- If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
- Mignon McLaughlin, in The Neurotic's Notebook (1960)
- Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.
- Jules Romains, in Dr. Knock (1923)
- Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
- Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (1977).
- As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
- Lewis Thomas, in The Medusa and the Snail (1979).
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