Health Quotes

"Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing."

"'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies."

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."

"My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang."

"Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes."

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

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."

"It is a wearisome illness to preserve one's health by too strict a regimen."

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."

"Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised."

"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence."

"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

"Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person."

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."