Health Quotes

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will
interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in
diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.


Thomas Alva Edison

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Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from
suffering organs.

Jean-Martin Charcot

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There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been
prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and
warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Elbert Hubbard

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Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

H.G. Bohn

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The King who cannot rule his diet,
will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet.


Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno"

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God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Doug Larson

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In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick
and tired.

Author Unknown

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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill
of his doctors.

Chinese Proverb

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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you
have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you
need, even if it is not all you want.

Elbert Hubbard

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Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my
pharmacopoeia.

Napoleon I

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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its
value until we lose it.

Josh Billings

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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to
my children's health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep

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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window,
except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while
nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

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Life is not living, but living in health.

Martial, Roman poet

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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these
three good health abound.

Latin Proverb

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Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug
treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems
or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the
circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the
reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently
create new health problems as side effects of their
activities.

John R. Lee, M.D.

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The very first requirement of a hospital is that it should
do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightengale.

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...the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is,
deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or
by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US
annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.

Gary Null, et al., Death by Medicine

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Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies,
of which they know less, for diseases of which they know
nothing at all.

Voltaire

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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and
silver.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease.
Almost no one has studied health.



Adelle Davis

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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes
another necessary.


Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard

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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to
live.


Jim Rohn

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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a
time - pills or stairs.


Joan Welsh

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