Find a few quotations on Health and Wellness that you love

Quotes about Health and Wellness are sometimes amusing, sometimes a timely reminder. Here are three we like:-

"So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then
have to spend their wealth to regain their health"
A.J. Reb Materi

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,
drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
Mark Twain

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

Health Quotes about Weight and Food

Hmmm ….. Do we need reminding? Quotes about weight and food on the same pages as health and wellness are to be expected I guess:-

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon"
Doug Larson

"My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb."
Carrie Latet

"The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry."
Robert Hutchison

"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
John Mortimer

"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease."
V.L. Allineare

"Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package."
E.R. Squibb

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
Martin H. Fischer

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

"Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful."
Denis Diderot

"To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less."
Chu Hui Weng

Wellbeing Quotes are sometimes about ‘Not Being Sick’

Nothing changes - writers a long time produced some of these gems:

"I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better."
Samuel Butler

"A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body."
Cicero

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
Jackie Mason

"There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."
Josh Billings

Quotes with a Philosophical note

Some quotes make you think for a minute. Browse this selection

"The greatest wealth is health."
Virgil

"Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway."
Author Unknown

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
Redd Foxx

"Happiness lies, first of all, in health."
George William Curtis

"As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body."
Lewis Thomas

"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

"My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass."
Leslie Grimutter

"I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more." Henry Ward Beecher "Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other."
Joseph Addison

"Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well."
Marcus Valerius Martial

"Without health, there is no point. To anything."
Everett Mámor

Some Humorous Quotes about Health and Wellness

It’s always good to have a laugh – no matter how serious the topic. In fact that is probably the most important time to laugh, even a small smile:-

"We drink one another's health and spoil our own."
Jerome K. Jerome

"They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger."
Chi Chi Rodriguez

"If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise."
Logain Clendening

"After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health."
James Howell

"If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
Leon Eldred

"I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures."
Robert Benchley

"A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends."
Kin Hubbard

"It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are "heal.""
Ed Northstrum

"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."
Clement Freud

"If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you."
Carrie Latet

A Recipe for Health and Happiness:

"Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music."

Cornelius Celsus