"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health." - Francis Bacon

"A cheerful heart is good medicine." - Bible, Proverbs 17:22

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

"The trouble about 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, Come to Think of It

"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy." - Benjamin Franklin

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

"God heals, and the physician hath the thanks." - George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs.

"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Best Medicines

"Health consists with temperance alone." - Alexander Pope

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

"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well." - Seneca

"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." - Sivananda

"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it." - William Temple

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times." - Mark Twain

"I know I can quit smoking because I've done it a thousand times." - Mark Twain

"Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy

"Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend."
- JOHN DRYDEN, Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton

"You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. (Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.)" - JUVENAL, Satires

"It is a wearisome illness to preserve one's health by too strict a regimen." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else." - JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education Joy and Temperance and Repose

"Slam the door on the doctor's nose." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Best Medicines

"Life is not merely being alive, but being well." - MARTIAL, Epigrams

"The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would." - SIMEON STRUNSKY, The Patient Observer

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies." - LEO TOLSTOY, War and Peace

"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it." - Barry, Dave

"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors." - Crisp, Quentin

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti

"If I had known that I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mantle, Mickey