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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)

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

Krishnamurti

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekker
English dramatist (1572 - 1632)

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

National Health Insurance:
The compassion of the IRS
The efficiency of the Postal Service
All at Pentagon prices!!!!

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates, Regimen in Health
Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus, {One of the 7 Greek Sages}

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923)

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