A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

——Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

——George Dennison Prentice

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

——Hippocrates

A vigorous five-mile walk will

do more good for and unhappy

but otherwise healthy adult than

all the medicine and psychology

in the world.

——Paul Dudley White

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

——Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

——Mark Twain

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

——Charles Dickens

How to eat spinach like a child:Divide into piles. Rearrange again into piles. After five or six manoeuvres, sit back and say you are full.

——Delia Ephron

The sick are the greatest threat to the healthy. Not from the strongest but from the weakest does harm come to the strong.

——Nietzsche

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets - a vicious circle!

——George du Maurier

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

——Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

——Sam Goldwyn

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience;for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

——Izaak Walton

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

——Michael Torke

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

——Mark Bittman

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.

—— Tahir Shah

The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a sound mind in a sound body'.

——Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

——Ivan Illich

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

——Walter Matthau

We drink one another's health, and spoil our own.

——Jerome K. Jerome

It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life.

——Herve Guibert

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

——James Thurber

You should pray to have a sound mind in a sound body.

——Juvenal, Satires

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

——John Wanamaker

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

——Aesop

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

——Andrew Weil

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

——George Bernard Shaw

Last night we went to a Chinese dinner at six and a French dinner at nine, and I can feel the sharks' fins navigating unhappily in the Burgundy.

——Peter Fleming

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

——Marcel Proust

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

——Steve Yzerman

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look -that healthy equals beautiful.

——Victoria Principal

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

——Joseph Addison

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

——Jerome K. Jerome

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

——Charlie Chaplin

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

——Erma Bombeck

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

——Andy Rooney

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

——Cyril Connolly

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

——Jean Kerr

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

——Helen Keller

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; If you are sick you shouldn't take it.

——Henry Ford

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

——Naomi Wolf

To cure the mind's wrong bias, spleen, some recommend the bowling-green, some, hilly walks;all, exercise.

——Matthew Green

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

——Jean Kerr

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

——Ornette Coleman

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

——Bill Watterson

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

——Gerard Way

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

——Temple Grandin

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

——Charles M. Schulz

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

——Denis Diderot

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

——Eubie Blake

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce?

The cuckoo clock.

——Orson Welles, The Third Man