Health Quotes

"If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies"

David Obey, Politician

"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"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 rather not"

Mark Twain, Author

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Wildlife trafficking is not just an animal welfare issue. It is a global security threat, an environmental threat, and a threat to our health and well-being"

Peter Knights, Activist

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance"

Plato, Philosopher

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Cynicism is humor in ill health"

H.G. Wells, Author

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it"

Ovid, Poet

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death"

Buddha, Leader

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"

Buddha, Leader

"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions"

John Locke, Philosopher

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear"

Buddha, Leader

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