Health Quotes

"A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well."

"A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months."

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

"One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep."

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again."

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

"I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine."

"Prevention is better than cure."

"People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem."

"I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center."

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

"Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live."

"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."

"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."

"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."