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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Funny Health Quotes



Don't you just love those cynical graphic artists who are always good for a laugh?

Quotes

* The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. - Mark Twain

* Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. - Benjamin Franklin

* So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. - A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family

* I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. - John Mortimer

* My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. - Carrie Latet

* Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. - Sydney J. Harris

* What linguistic genius set up the sneeze and wheeze To rhyme so very perfectly with the word for allergies? - Charlie N. Abbers
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die. - Anonymous

* It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason

* If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. - Logain Clendening

* If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. - Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964

* It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are "heal." - Ed Northstrum

* First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. - Martin H. Fischer

* Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. - Denis Diderot

* How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! - Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

* Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. - Martin H. Fischer

* My inner advisor is dying to heal me. - Astrid Alauda

* Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there. - Martin H. Fischer

* When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. - Friedrich Nietzsche

* After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health. - James Howell

* If your body's not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself. - V.L. Allineare



* Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. - Jules Romains, Dr. Knock, 1923

* If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. - Carrie Latet

* I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. - Astrid Alauda

* Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. - Aldous Huxley

* A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. - Kin Hubbard

* 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, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932

* When an illness knocks you on your a$$, you should stay down and relax for a while before trying to get back up. - Candea Core-Starke

* Every man's disease is his personal property. - Alonzo Clark

* Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. - Anonymous

* It's bizarre that the (grocery store) produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. - Meryl Streep

* If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

* From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. - Catalan Proverb (Spain)

* Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches. - V.L. Allineare

* Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. - John Henry Cardinal Newman

* Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package. - E.R. Squibb (American drug manufacturer)

* Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. - Charles Simmons

* We drink one another's health and spoil our own. - Jerome K. Jerome

* My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. - Leslie Grimutter

* Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. - Marcel Proust

* Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. - Danish Proverb

* A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. - Irish Proverb

* Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. - George Jean Nathan

* If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. - Robert Ingersoll

* Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

* I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - Anonymous

* The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. - Quentin Regestein

* They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

* Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! - comedian Tommy Smothers

* Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

* If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Leon Eldred

* Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. - Redd Foxx

* Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. - Anonymous

* Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson

* 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, The Way of All Flesh, 1903

* There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. - Josh Billings

* The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. - G.K. Chesterton

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