Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
- Martial
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience.
- Izaak Walton
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
- Izaak Walton
Mankind must realize that it is in need of healing not from the outer world, but from within.
- Carolyn Warfield
My wealth is health and perfect ease; my conscience clear my chief defense.
- Edward Dyer
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
- H. G. Bohn
Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.
- Phyllis Diller
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
- Seneca
Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.
- E. C. McKenzie
Nor love, nor honour, wealth nor pow'r, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; with health all taste of pleasure flies.
- John Gay
O blessed health!.....thou art above all gold and treasure....He that has thee, has little more to wish for; and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.
- Sterne
O health! health! the blessing of the rich! The riches of the poor! Who can buy thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying this world without thee?
- Ben Jonson
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
- Leo Tolstoy
Preserving the health by too severe a rule is a wearisome malady.
- La Rochefoucauld
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Rich, from the very want of wealth, in Heaven's best treasures, Peace and Health.
- Thomas Gray
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
- Cleobulus
Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox