Health Quotes — Page 27

Playwright, Poet

“O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?”

Strong Summer Health

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Samuel Butler

Novelist, Poet, Essayist

“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”

Men Next Health

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Health is the requisite after morality”

Health Morality

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Thornton Wilder

Playwright, Novelist, Poet

“For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?”

Choices Health

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The best part of health is fine disposition”

Health Fine Disposition

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.”

Air Exercise Health

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.”

Animal Quality Health

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.”

Sea Health Sunshine

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.”

Running Broken Health

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?”

Men Pain Health

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.”

Giving Sick Health

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.”

Pain Blessed Health

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