Sage Stillwell says

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
     -Hannah Green
Health is better than wealth.
    -proverb
It is is moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole words apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
     -Marcel Proust
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.
     -Barbara Pym
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
     -Eubie Blake At Age 100
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
     -Joan Welsh
The first wealth is health.
     -Ralph Waldo Emerson
My neighbor stopped smoking yesterday. He is survived by a wife and child.
     -Harry C. Bauer
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
     -James Freeman Clark
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
     -Chungliang Al Huang
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
    -William Londen
If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.
     -Schola Salern
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
     -Sir William Osler
If you think medicines are dangerous, try disease.
     -Dr. Brian Cromie, Hoeschst Pharmaceuticals
I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
     -Abe Lemons
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
     -Carol Leifer
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
     -Lord Percival
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
     -Robert M. Hutchins
Exercise: you don't have time not to.
     -Source Unknown
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
     -Thomas Jefferson
He had had much experience of physicians, and said "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."
     -Following the Equator (Mark Twain)
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's Autobiography
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
     -George Dennison Prentice
Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!"
     -Greg Anderson

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