Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Health and Illness

Health & Illness

The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused, while nature heals the disease.--Voltaire
Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.--Mark Twain
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.--Benjamin Franklin
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.--Ogden Nash
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.--Irish proverb
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.--Hubert Humphrey
Grief is not an illness that requires a cure; rather, it is a call to embark on a journey of the soul.--Clare Wagner (Awakening to Prayer: A Woman's Perspective)
He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything.--Arabian Porverb
I reckon being ill is 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 (The Way of All Flesh)
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.--Oliver Wendell Holmes (Over the Teacups)
[In sickness] your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.--Norman Cousins
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.--Pam Brown
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom.--Anton Chekhov
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.--Erma Bombeck
Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.--Margiad Evans
The sad truth is that there is no point to getting sick when you're a grown-up. You know why? It's because being sick is about you and your mother... Without that solicitous hand on your forehead, there is no one to confirm that you are really sick.--Adair Lara (Welcome to Earth, Mom)
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.--Dorothy Fuldheim
Time is the best doctor.--Yiddish Proverb
Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.--Bantu proverb
We are not responsible for our illness, we are responsible to them, to what they offer and require of all of us, sick and well alike.--Kat Duff