Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

Ian Mcewan

None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.

Bill Cowher

So really we're pretty healthy going into the game.

Esther Williams

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Henry David Thoreau

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

As for health, consider yourself well.

Henry David Thoreau

We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

Henry David Thoreau

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

In my 17 years of coaching, Ryan is the toughest kid I have been around. He has a heart of a lion. When you take into consideration all of the health issues and what he is doing on the court, you realize how tough he really is.

I'm not a medical doctor, ... I state that in the book. That's why I'm qualified to talk about health. Because I'm not a drug pusher. I'm not a pharmaceutical rep.

Picabo Street

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

Mike Figgis

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

John C. Maxwell

I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports

Susan Beth Pfeffer

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

Studs Terkel

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Sonia Choquette

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

Steve Jobs

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

Jo Brand

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

Jo Brand

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

Jimmy Carter

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

The intimacy and spiritual relationships or connections that one can have with their significant other are very important to your health -- cardiovascular and otherwise.

Peter Lynch

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Rachel Carson

Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Prince Philip

We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

Terence McKenna

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

Mehmet Oz

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.